Folder renaming

I've been trying to rename some folders in LR and keep getting the message "Could not rename. An unknown error occurred." Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions?
Thanks

I am also getting this problem. One thing I did figure out is for instance if my folder was this:
2007
---11
------31_Halloween
And I'm trying to change Halloween, I would get that error. However, if I click rename again and then delete the entire word Halloween and type it again all in lowercase, it would work. I have to remove the entire "offending" word I guess?
What is going on? Bug?

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We have two (2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon) machines running 10.4.9, networked with a server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 5.2.3709 Service Pack 1 Build 3790. The Macs are set up as Admin, Managed Mobile user accounts. All work is stored on network file shares.
One of our machines displays strange behaviour when folders are created or moved, from the mac across the network, on any of the fileshares. These issues are-
1. When a new folder is created on any of the fileshares, from the mac, a duplicate folder automatically appears in the same directory of the fileshare. This file is only visible from the mac.
2. When a folder is moved from any directory of the fileshare to any other directory, the folder name changes to duplicate a folder name already within the new directory. File names within the moved folder and its duplicate are also affected.
We are extreamly busy at the moment and to reduce the risk of downtime I have been reluctant to run the 10.4.10 update.
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certain characters cannot be used for folder or file naming on a mac. it gets confused and the usual pattern of behaviour is it then duplicates a folder or file name by the immediate one around it. the usual suspect that I can think of in folder or file names being cross platformed and that are carried over on networks might be something as simple as the folder name being a date. eg; 9/8/2007. the forward slash / is an illegal character for file or folder naming on a mac because it's system files depend on that character. try renaming folders and files without using chararcters and see if that fixes the problem.

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When I try to rename a folder, just changing the case from upper to lower I get an error.
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Because Windows does not have case-sensitive file or directory names, but allows you to save with any combination of cases, the various versions of a file name that differ only in case are treated internally as identical. FIle.pdf and fiLE.pDf refer to the same file. When you rename a file, it has to be named something different, so it has to differ in some way other than case. In your case, maybe change the folder name slightly when you rename it, then rename again to get it where you want it to be.
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how can create a folder and rename the folder by using oracle procedure / funcation or etc
or there is any other way to do this
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I don't know why u want to do that in oracle. You cn do it with JAVA. Call java procedure using pragma restrict_reference and inside that procedure you rename any folder. Because, i don't think u'll be able to reaname any folder using HOST command. I'm not sure about this.
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