characters and Characters

[jbraun001]

I've been using the OBMM with limited success. As i've come to be more experienced as to what files go where and why, I've come across an anomoly. When I open up the oblivion folders to figure out why a mod might not be working properly, I see the some files that come with the mods are capitolized. For instance I know there is a "characters" file in the vanilla meshes folder. Then when i download a face changeing mod, there will be a "Characters" file in the mod's meshes folder. Now, are the files within the mod's "Caracters" supposed to go into Oblivion vanilla "characters"folder or is the mods "Characters" folder meant to be a sub file in the vanilla meshes folder appart from "characters"?

[Tefnacht]

I suppose you're a Linux user at heart? Not to play Oblivion, but maybe at work?

 

Windows does not differentiate uppercase and lowercase letters when it comes to folder and filenames. For Windows, “CHARACTERS”, “characters”, “Characters” and “CHarACteRS” is the exact same thing.

If the mod archive you download has files to place into “.\Data\Meshes\Characters\” but on your harddisk you only have a “.\data\meshes\characters\” folder... the files from the archive are absolutely destined to go into your existing folder, no matter the upper\lowercase spelling difference. Windows does not differentiate that way.

 

You can prove this to yourself very easily. Go to your Oblivion directory and look at the name of your data directory. It will probably be called “data”. Now create a new folder and try to name it “Data”. Windows will reject that name, because a folder with that name already exists.

 

Some compression utilities (like 7zip) care for upper\lowercase folder and filenames. Because they originate from the Linux platform or are designed to be compatible with those platforms.

 

If you manually sort where your files have to go on your Windows system, always imagine everything spelled in lowercase. Source and target alike. That is how Windows does it.

 

If some mods conflict with each other... it is ABSOLUTELY not because one filename was uppercase while the other one was the same, but lowercase. Windows filenames are NOT case sensitive, ever. The operating system itself does not support that.