gdrive: two files with the same name but different case exist on the remote server!

[patrickdrd]

so I started using ffs to sync my files to google drive and I got this message a couple of times already after using total commander sync, and indeed it was right I had to go and delete the dupes on my own

Total Commander
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Error, two files with the same name but different case exist on the remote server!
Because Windows doesn't support this on local drives, you need to delete one of the duplicates before proceeding!

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[xCSxXenon]

What is the point of this post?
Bug report? Not a bug, intended behavior
Feature request? Not a FFS related behavior, NTFS is not case-sensitive

[patrickdrd]

of course it should be a ffs bug,
who else created those duplicate files then?

I think FFS did because these files didn't exist before,
I used ffs for the initial upload,
and this is for both cases

[xCSxXenon]

Gotcha! Very likely that FFS didn't create them, I would say guaranteed even.
I will say, the two paths/files you posted don't have any differences at all, even in case

[patrickdrd]

yes, my problem isn't that they're different. my problem is that they are the same!
and so I've got to go find them and delete them manually,
anyway, it doesn't make sense, who created those and why?

[therube]

Perhaps TC is displaying the two file/path names as the same (case),
but in fact, on the Google end, they are different?

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If these files were only sent up by FFS, then did case change on your end?
As is was the file (& or path) name originally something like \Readme\ & then you subsequently changed it to \readme\ (on the local end)?

(Sort of scratching my head on that, heh, as I guess FFS is treating things insensitively... where Google is not...)

[patrickdrd]

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here are all the duplicates FFS created after uploading around 235gb of data

[patrickdrd]

9/11 are images and most of them (if not all) small files,
maybe @zenju would want to take a look at this,

also note that I'm using "mirror" to sync/upload these files,
but of course ffs couldn't delete (the one of?) them because it wouldn't know which one to keep,
but I'm working with gd many years now and duplicates are a common problem with it,
I was using their software before starting using ffs and it used to create the famous "(1)" files on my disk because of course windows wouldn't allow it to create two files with the same name (and path) as is the case with gd