>> I looked for recent similar issues and only found
https://superuser.com/questions/1297658/folder-names-become-uppercase-when-syncing-to-fat32-drive

>> So if other users of this Win10 build start tripping on this same problem 
>> and reporting it, it may get looked at by MS.

The site you mention also asked about variations in hardware or
formatting mechanism. I find the identical behaviour in USB drives
(local) and USB sticks (removable). In the past I have used Hitachi
Microdrive to render Removable sticks Local, but can't find a version
of this driver upgrade for 64-bit. (Not one that works, anyway.
Several that don't.) Also identical behaviours whether the filesystem
is formatted FAT32 in Windows or formatted FAT32 in Linux.

So summarising:

SOME (but not ALL) file transactions on FAT32 result in

"Mixed case but no spaces 8.3" -> "ALL UPPER CASE 8.3"

Examples are sed and dos2unix (and family); but not nano, or joe. I
can't think of anything that I could reasonably test on a folder
rather than a file to see the effect on foldername.

Goodness knows how to upstream anything to MS.

Finally, there was another Windows update yesterday, 05-MAR-2018: to
version 1709 OS build 16299.251. Hopes of a return to correct
behaviours were immediately dashed. :o(

Fergus

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