Changing case sensitive filenames in DWCS4

I moved a site to a unix server and now run into the problem that some of my file names have capitals in them. When I try to change this in DW, I get told the file already exists and asked whether I want to overwrite. I click 'yes' , but the old, capitalized file name is saved.
Can I change this somewhere in preferences? (I noticed DP's advice on case sensitive links in site settings, but I think that is a different issue) Or do I have to open up all files in a texteditor and save them there? Or is there perhaps an other solution?
Thanks.

Found it. You cannot save a filename with capitals to one without, but you can change the name in the list of files with f2. The new names seem to stick then.
Edit:
Well, "seem" to was the right way of putting it: some file names are easily changed with f2, but other not.
Why would the change from LuchtAlg.htm to luchtalg.htm not stick when the change from LuchtRang.htm to luchtrang.htm does?

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