LR4 renaming - file extension case

I played today with file renaming in Lightroom 4 and noticed that not only does LR rename the file, but automatically changes the file extension to upper case (.cr2 becomes .CR2). I would prefer to keep it lower case but did not find an option in the settings.

Does anybody know how to change this?

Thanks!

There is no control for it as I dont think it matters any, other than personal querks.

Mark1 wrote in post #14295906
There is no control for it as I dont think it matters any, other than personal querks.

Thanks, at least I know I am not overlooking something.

I you look at the LR Import dialog , in the File Renaming panel at the upper right side (below File Handling) there is an Extensions option with a drop-down list where you can choose Lowercase, Uppercase, or Leave as-is (the default).

In the case of CR2 (as opposed to tiff, tif, jpg, or jpeg) I don't think I have ever seen it written in lower case. Certainly not in any file I have obtained directly from any camera.

Just to add to my above post:

The Copy as DNG, Copy and Move functions allow you to change the extention case. The Add function does not. And, as far as I can see when you change filenames in the Library module (F2) you can't change the case.

I took a quick look and didnt see this. I have the file handling. But not a file renaming tab. Maybe I have it turned off somewhere in a control panel.

All my files get imported into LR after importing to my PC's hard drive using ImageIngester Pro and they all end up with upper case 'CR2' - It doesn't really matter though...

Mark1 wrote in post #14298349
I took a quick look and didnt see this. I have the file handling. But not a file renaming tab. Maybe I have it turned off somewhere in a control panel.

Well, here's a screen shot of the right side of my Import module:

Yes, I do see the file handling tab in the import module - good to know. But I was only renaming, the photos were already imported.

Unfortunately it matters very much if extensions are upper or lower case.
Not on windows servers, but unix etc server make a strict difference between upper and lowe case extensions (and filenames). So uploading your file as x.JPG and have a x.jpg href in your html code, will give you a file not found.

In the LR Export dialog you can set your extension to either Upper- or Lowercase, so yeah if you are going to be using Linux/Unix you want to pay attention!

MAC is Unix based and Android is based on someting historic, so do these warnings apply to those enviroments?

I only work in Windows and Android.