March 9, 201412 yr There will no doubt be a technical reason for this (showing why these folder names aren't identical), but I can't figure out how to solve this. When accessing tower through my OS I can see a folder named, for eg., NCIS. When browsing the shares in the webGUI I can see the folder NCIS and another in the same location Ncis. What do I need to do to resolve this please? I just want one folder, not two.
March 9, 201412 yr Do you have a 'user share' with the folder 'NCIS' and 'Ncis' in it, or are you accessing via disk shares? And when you look in NCIS on your OS, do you see the combined set of files in 'NCIS' and 'Ncis', or are they different? What OS are you using?
March 9, 201412 yr Author The folders are http://tower/Shares/Browse?dir=/mnt/user/TVshows/NCIS http://tower/Shares/Browse?dir=/mnt/user/TVshows/Ncis The contents of both are different. When accessing with OSX Mavericks I just see NCIS, but have now spotted that when accessing in Win7 I see both (rarely use Win7). I think that Ncis was created automatically based upon a filename, so am a little surprised that the contents weren't dumped into the existing NCIS folder.
March 9, 201412 yr At the Linux level folder names are case sensitive, whereas in Windows and Mac they normally are case insensitive. Normally Samba should hide this from you so I am not quite sure how you ended up with folders with both names. I think that once this happens you will only see one of them via Samba. You may need to telnet in and move the files from Ncis to NCIS at the Linux level. Having done that you can remove the folder that is now empty.
March 9, 201412 yr Author Thank you both - will look into further to try and stop it from happening. I guess if XBMC sees both folders, it shouldn't matter (apart from it being untidy!).
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