I am using directCD 3.03 in Windows ME. does anyone know why when I drag a file off of a CD-RW onto the hard drive, the file name is changed to all uppercase. I would really like to know if anyone else has this problem and what causes it. It seems to have started when I installed DirectCD 3.03 and it does the same when I copy files to a floppy disk. But it does not change the case of file names when I copy onto the CD-RW. Any ideas, thanks

Hi tg: What is happening is not a problem in as much as it is a characteristic. The version of DirectCD that you are using formats the disk. Most likely using a standard called ISO 9660. ISO 9660 is a data format designed by the International Standards Organization in 1984. It's the accepted cross-platform protocol for filenames and directory structures. Filenames are restricted to uppercase letters, the digits '0' to '9' and the underscore character, '_'. Nothing else is allowed. Directory names can be a maximum of only eight characters (not including extensions) and can only be eight sub-directories deep. The standard can be ignored under Windows 9X - but older CD-ROM drives may not be able to handle the resulting non-standard discs. So as you drag a file onto the CDRW, the software changes the file name to an accptable format, and does not have the necessary code to change it back upon it's return to your HD. But then again . . . I could be wrong! Take care and be safe!