Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#16557 closed defect (duplicate)
Case sensitive path names under Windows 7
| Reported by: | Hans42 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.16 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Hi, I have an issue after I upgraded my vbox to 5.1.16. The host is running Umbuntu 16.04 64 bit The guest is running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit The configuration was running fine until I updated to 5.1.16
The configuration uses a shared folder /data on the linux host to provide storage to the windows 7 guest under drive L:. The content can be accessed from the linux host and the Windows guest. Since the upgrade to 5.1.16 the files on L: (Windows machine) became case sensitive. Usually file names under Windows are case insensitive so test.txt and TEXT.TXT are the same file. But suddenly they are different. If a program write test.txt and later wants to open TEST.TXT then the file will not be found if is located on a shared folder. On a "normal" virtual storage (C:) everything works as expected.
A side effect of the problem is that it is not possible to rename a file on a shared folder if only the case of the characters are changed.
Since many tools under Windows rely on the case insensitivity of the system, it is critical bug.
Duplicate of #16549.