Uppercase/Lowercase changing apps

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Are there any loungers familiar with an application that will recase multiple filenames at one time?

Please advise….thanks!

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Sure do Bruce. Check out 2Lower.

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Mark ~

Thank you! After trying about 11 or 12 different apps, this is the only one that recases all files in one fell swoop, and directories & subs, and I might add, with a quickness!

Good looking out!

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Glad it worked….moving my website to a Linux server was an experience that I won’t soon forget. I’m still looking for an app that will converta all HTML tags to lowercase, but it’s starting to look like I will have to roll my own, as Jefferson so succintly put it.

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No need to roll your own.

HTML Tidy can change the case of HTML tags. You can find it at http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/%5B/url%5D

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Sorry, Brian, I should have been more specific. The tags themselves aren’t the problem, it’s the values – if there is a reference to a file in a tag, I need to convert it to lowercase also, for consistency. For example:

should be

I do appreciate the reminder about Tidy….it’s an excellent program for cleaning up the mess that GUI editors create.

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AH yes, that’s a whole different ball game.

A roll-your-own solution looks like it’s in order.

Although, if you file name’s cases match the tag value, it shouldn’t matter. I use mixed case all the time for image file names running on Linux servers.

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Ahhh….perhaps I spoke to soon. It seemed to work at first, but then peters out after several passes and you must exit the app then restart and then it only goes one directory deep. It gets hung up on .url & .htm files.

But for now it is still the best and beats doing it by hand.

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And maybe there’s something for you in multiple file renaming

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Hi Bruce,

I have this utility which I find to be very useful. Helped me many times.

Rname-it not only it will let you recase file names, but also replace or insert strings within a file name. It takes file extensions and prefixes as separate things, which is handy sometimes. Best of all, it’s free.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/kent/frame.html%5B/url%5D

From the web site: “file renaming utility specialized for batch (en masse) process renaming. It allows the user to select multiple files and rename them all at once. Files can easily be organized and grouped by renaming to a new common prefix and/or padded with a unique numerical or alphabetical value for sorting purposes. Also features Real Time Preview and Full (Final) Preview to ease the user in a complicated renaming procedures. Great for graphics collectors and webmasters!”

By the way, I think I grabbed it from one of the many links in Loungers’ signs. Hope it works!!!

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If you’re inclined to roll your own, VBScript probably could do the job, although with a lot of nested folders, the code could get messy.

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You’re welcome.

If you scroll about 3/4 of the way down the page I posted under Using a Configuration File, you should see a uppercase-tags command as well as an uppercase-attributes command. That’s how you set the case of the tags and attributes.

But the case of the tags shouldn’t matter, unless you are writing XML.

I used upper case and mixed case tags for years on Unix based servers without any problem.

The case of the FILENAMES are a completely different story.

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