Hi All, this is my problem :
Western Digital My book - san : provides a shared area "Media" , mapped as M:
Desktop with Win XP-pro, sp3
User has all rights on the M:- drive.
goal : all entries in m:\music in lower case (for scripting purposes)
When I use BRU to select all files in m:\music after some time it presents the list of all folders, and sub folders. (Approx 32k files)
- All files are selected, and by using option 4 (Case) all files and folders should be replaced in lower-case.
BRU shows the old names, and the new one, as wanted by me.
Hitting 'rename' starts the proces, and at the status line I see the progress, xxx files (and counting).
After some time all seems to be done and in the old and new column I see the names in lower-case. No error's reported.
When I check in Windows the folders and files aren't changed. When I open the same m:\music folder in BRU I see again all names in different upper and lowe case (as it was.)
Changing the names by hand in windows is no problem, and works. (So no rights issue)
When I take smaller sections of files and folders, the same happens, so amount of files and folders isn't the problem (assumption).
When I copy some folders to the local harddrive and do everything again it works as planned (ie. changes all upper in lower cases) .
What am I doing wrong, or not seeing ?
BTW : I know the quick and dirty work around : copy batches of files from the SAN to the local harddrive and perform the change, move the processed batch back to the san, and then the next batch, until all 32000 files and folders are done. Just the whole copy process would take up to 50 hrs, due to file sizes..
Kind regards for pointing me into the right direction,
db