zhanghai / zhanghai/MaterialFiles
File Renaming Does Not Work When Changing Case Of Existing Characters Of The Filename?
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Description
This problem obviously makes things difficult when trying to rename files/folders. This functionality is essential if the underlying file system is case sensitive but even is the file system isn't case sensitive you may still want to rename a file for display/reading purposes.
Reproduce:
From within Material Files create a file called "test.txt". Then try to rename to "Test.txt" and the rename is not carried out (note the difference of lower and upper case "T").
Workaround:
Rename the file to "TTest.txt" and then to "Test.txt" (adding an extra character and then removing it forces the rename to happen).
Solution:
Guessing here but the check to detect if the rename should be performed should be changed to case sensitive?
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Research direction
Reproduce the case-only rename in Material Files by changing “test.txt” to “Test.txt”, then trace the file-renaming path and its check for whether a rename is needed. Done means renaming existing files or folders when only character case changes, without requiring the temporary-name workaround.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100