Filename conflict?

[wideangle]

I think I've just noticed a conflict with filenames when using the 'Create backup in zip' option.

Consider this as an example :

In your slide list you have slide named as pic.jpg

At some later point you refer to that slide in the Objects and Animation window under Properties -> Picture, but use the name pic.JPG

When you try to create a zip P2E thinks that they are two different files.

Can anyone else confirm this?

[Conflow]

Wideangle,

No problem there, Pte will recognise 2 different Filenames because they are different !!!

Title1:- pic.jpeg

Title2:- pic.JPEG

Two different Files ~ one with 'lower-case' characters the other with 'capital characters'

consequently the Ascii Codes will be different ~ so 2 different Filenames.

Brian.Conflow

[cjdnzl]

Wideangle,

No problem there, Pte will recognise 2 different Filenames because they are different !!!

Title1:- pic.jpeg

Title2:- pic.JPEG

Two different Files ~ one with 'lower-case' characters the other with 'capital characters'

consequently the Ascii Codes will be different ~ so 2 different Filenames.

Brian.Conflow

You surprise me, Brian. I have always understood that filenames and folder names are case independent in Windows - and the old 8.3 names in DOS likewise.

Does PTE make a distinction then between upper and lower case names?

Colin

[wideangle]

Hi Colin

Yes, that's the assumption I was working on, too.

[nobeefstu]

wideangle,

I dont quite understand the purpose to rename a file by changing its extention from lowercase to uppercase ?

When you try to create a zip P2E thinks that they are two different files.

I dont think PTE believes that they are two different files ... just because it warns you to make unique filenames for each if you intend to make a backup zip. Basically its telling you have multiple images with the same filename. Making a backup zip copies all the images to a single directory without folder structure.

[wideangle]

wideangle,

I dont quite understand the purpose to rename a file by changing its extention from lowercase to uppercase ?

Hi, thanks for your comments.

I woudn't intentionally change a filename that way - I just pulled a copy in that happened to be named like that!

[Conflow]

Guys,

Here below is a 'demonstration' of what I was talking about:-

Same Photo, 2 different Filenames...but look identical.

(1) pic-jpeg

(2) pic-JPEG

PTE would recognise these as two different Photographs.

It depend's which way you have Windows set-up, whether to

allow Windows to use upper and lower cases for Filenames and

whether to allow 'full-extensions' to Filenames which are normally

deliniated by the "full.stop" but that depends if you are using the

full file extension in the 1st instance.

In our Workshops we use this technique when we are editing ANY

origional File when we dont want accidental changes to the (parent)

origional File....simply change the extension to upper/lower case as

the situation warrants ~ without changing the Filename and the added

confusion which that causes.

This may be the problem which Wideangle is talking about, and another

thing, it is very dangerous to use 'full.stop' in Filenames, for example:-

My.Holiday ~ it should be My-Holiday or My_Holiday. Always use hyphen

or underscore, as the 'full.stop' is usually a reserved Windows character.

Brian.Conflow.