Capitalization of directory names

Question

(Windows XP SP2)
On my server, my Web site directories are all lower case. Unfortunately, some of those directories are uppercase on the Windows side. It doesn't seem like there is any way to rename those directories with a lowercase name in Windows (I've tried it, and it just reverts to what it was before, though if someone knows a way to do this, I'd love to hear it).
Therefore, when I make hypertext links in Dreamweaver, those links are bad and I need to manually edit them.
I know I could rename the server-side directories and then fix all the links with a global search and replace, but I don't want to do that. Is there a way to  tell Dreamweaver, when I create a hypertext link, that what it thinks is uppercase should be lowercase?
Thanks!
regards,
Marina Michaels
(PS Why does the spelling checker for these posts think that Dreamweaver is a misspelling? Adobe should add the proper spelling of its products to the dictionary. ^^)

Answer 1

I do understand that that would have solved the problem had I realized it years ago, but I was hand-coding all my Web pages for many years before I discovered Dreamweaver. That means the differences were never an issue since I was typing everything, including links, by hand anyway.
Here's the difficulty with your solution, which would normally be fine: Since my Web site has been around since 1994 or 1995, and since I have a number of articles that are enormously popular all over the world, I have a LOT of people linking to my site. Therefore, I cannot rename the directories on the server side, even though that would be the simplest solution, because it would break too many links people have to my site.
On the other hand, I also cannot rename the directories on the Windows side, because Windows XP doesn't seem to be a case-sensitive OS, or at least I cannot figure out how to make it care about case.
However, after posting my question, I think I have a solution. Just in case other people have the same difficulty, here is what I am going to do.
1.  Create a new top directory for my Web site on my local computer.
2.  In that new local directory, recreate the directory structure of my site using all lowercase directory names.
3.  From the older local top directory, copy over the files that belong in those directories.
4.  Rename the older local top directory something different.
5.  Rename the new local top directory with the old top directory's name.
Et voila. After that, Dreamweaver will make the correct links when I insert them without me having to remember to hand-edit them.