Version: (using KDE 4.2.90) Installed from: SuSE RPMs If one changes a name of a file or folder from "Name" to "name" an error message occurs: "Exists already as folder..."
it's a feature of case insentive file systems. name and Name are the same, it's up to the file manager to catch the error of the file system to display a more user friendly error.
The problem occurs using FAT32. The problem is indeed, if a want to access a directory or a file is does not distinguish between capital or lower letters. But for displaying it does. I don't think it is an error, if I want to rename a file from "name" to "Name", because it is a valid action. The work around is "name" to "name2" to "Name". This works.
I've to correct my previous post: the server I try to access through Samba uses a XFS file system. When I directly access a FAT32 drive, everything is fine.
*** Bug 322572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
On Unix it's possible to rename A to a and vice-versa on e.g. a FAT32 partition https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/44823/ Given how old the report(s) is, closing as worksforme for now; feel free to reopen if you can still reproduce the issue.