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Bug 341851

Summary:	[rename] Refactoring (renaming) gives "already exists" error for upper/lower case change
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Anson Chu <anson.ch>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, pbenedict, sanchitbhatnagar
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	3.8 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Anson Chu

2011-04-04 17:50:35 EDT

Build Identifier: M20100909-0800

When I try to rename my project from "project1" to "Project1" using rightclick->refactor->rename, I get the error "A folder with that name already exists". I have to first change it to something else like "proj1" and then back to "Project1".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new java project name "project1"
2. Refactor the project name to "Project1"
3. Will see the error in the dialogue box not letting you continue.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2012-02-21 06:26:42 EST

Fixed in master: 7f9291ce60a54ed766ec040d129854eb263d7bba

Comment 2 Paul Benedict

2012-02-21 18:05:37 EST

Is this fix also applicable to classes? For years, I've encountered this bug on Windows if I were to rename, for example, Foreach.java to ForEach.java

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2012-02-22 02:31:33 EST

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this fix also applicable to classes? 
No, that case got fixed long time ago.