Snow Leopard is changing filenames to ALL CAPS!!

Hi All,
This is getting pretty frustrating. For absolutely no apparent reason files names and extensions are getting changed to all caps. This happens in programs ranging from CS3 to Coda. Has anyone come across this is or know of a fix or cause?
Thanks much

In addition to Kappy's advice, if the issue is specific to your original user account and not the newly created user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to log into your new account, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that other account's list from the original account's Preferences folder into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.
The second way is much more detailed and I'll not burden you with the steps unless the above doesn't fix the issue.

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Ever since snow leopard and now Lion some filenames have been changing to ALL CAPS for no reason whatsoever. Has anyone else had this issue? It happens mainly in Adobe Creative Sweet and Panic's Coda.

In addition to Kappy's advice, if the issue is specific to your original user account and not the newly created user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to log into your new account, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that other account's list from the original account's Preferences folder into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.
The second way is much more detailed and I'll not burden you with the steps unless the above doesn't fix the issue.

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I have been running Office 2004 on my Intel iMac with Snow Leopard for some time and all of a sudden I cannot save a document. Word just stopped responding and I have to force quit. I can open Word and create a new document but I cannot save it. I reinstalled Word but that didn’t help. Then went to the Internet and found at least one other Mac user having the same problem which it suggests is caused by a recent Mac Security Update:
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So I check for a new Mac Security Update and sure enough there was one. I downloaded it and now Word seems to be working, as it should. I can both open and save files. The only problem remaining is that when I open Word I get the following error message “An unexpected error occurred while trying to load the Microsoft Framework library”. I contacted Apple but they were unable to help.
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Restore proceedure to pre-Security Update 2012-001 v 1.0 & v 1.1
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Hold c boot off the 10.6 disk (wired keyboard, internal optical drive), use Disk Utility First Aid to >Repair Disk of your internal drive (do not format or erase!!), Quit DU and simply re-install 10.6.
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doichuck wrote:
I bought a new 24" 2,93 mhz Imac which came with leopard installed. I have 3 external hard drives daisy chained with my scanner. I only turn on the two smaller hard drives to enable operation of the scanner. Most of the time I only have my 750 gig My Book drive which I set up for Time Machine to back up my computers HD. Under leopard all worked fine but having only recently upgraded to snow leopard I had an occasion to use the scanner and turned on all hard drives. Time Machine began to work so hard I could not scan and could not shut down so I had to push the off button. I now cannot get the Imac to boot now unless I turn on the other two hard drives also. Not sure how to proceed?.
You need to run a +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions), via Disk Utility, in your Applications/Utilities folder, on any disk that was attached when you did the force power off.
Maybe as the other hard drive appeared on my desktop time machine was backing them up. I had excluded the desktop when I initially set it up.
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