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In article <mpro.taz9qr00o36wd05mv.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
   Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 24 Feb, Bob Latham wrote in message
>     <5cb028ab62bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>:

> > I'm trying to find a way to check if a directory on a NAS
> > contains any music files. .flac .mp3 .m4a
> > 
> > I've had the realisation this morning that OS_File 13 is case
> > sensitive so setting R1 to point to */flac will not cut it. So to
> > find if a (NAS) directory contains any flac files it looks like I
> > would need to test for flac and Flac and FLAC etc. any
> > combination.

> That sounds like the underlying filing system, not OS_File. The NAS
> is probably running some Linux-y FS that's case sensitive, and
> therefore Music.FLAC and Music.Flac are actually two different
> files, which can both exist together.

Oh, didn't think of that.

> > The only solution I can see is to use OS_GBPB to read the name of
> > file after file and mask out the upper lower case bit ie &DF and
> > if nothing is found early I have to read every name in the
> > directory.
> > 
> > Is there a better way?

> Make sure that your filing system's filetype mapping is sensible
> (whether it uses MimeMap or its own arrangement) and test on
> filetypes? That way, it would be the FS's problem to do the
> extension parsing.

I'd love to but flac and mp3 are fine but no mime map for m4a.

Thanks.

Bob.

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OS_File case sensitive Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-02-24 12:21 +0000
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