From DNG to dng

Hey everyone,
I have imported and edited thousands of photos in the last few years and most of them are dng images that have an upper case extension. I'd like to convert them all to lower case dng in an easy way and have a hard time figuring out a smart way of doing that.
Anybody some some suggestions?
If not, could this be a future request of future releases of lightroom?
Thanks,
Vivek

Just change them in Explorer/Finder with a rename utility (or command line). Both Windows and Mac are not case-sensitive, neither is Lightroom.

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    helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/digital-negative.html
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