Cannot change case of an application name

applicationscaserename

I have an application called LICEcap. It's a pretty handy app that allows you to take a GIF video of your screen.

But for some reason, I cannot change the case of the app name. It comes as "licecap.app" by default and I would really like to change its name to "LICEcap.app", but it just won't let me. I can change it to any other name, but whenever I try to name it "LICEcap", it just reverts right back to its all-lowercase "licecap".

How can I fix this?

EDIT: I've discovered something else which may or may not be helpful: If I go into the package contents of the app and change the instances of "licecap" in the info.plist file into "LICEcap", it lets me rename the app to whatever uppercase/lowercase I want, but corrupts the app (Finder says I should move it to the trash).

Best Answer

You cannot change the name because the filesystem is case independent. It is possible to change the filesystem to case dependent, but I would not recommend this. LICEcap and licecap are the same!

As others have pointed out in the comments the easiest way is to change to another name first.

Another way is to issue the following command in Terminal

mv licecap.app LICEcap.app

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Inserting shell script into .app bundle

This won't work for a signed app, but here's how I was able to get this to work:

Create a copy of the app you're trying to modify in case something goes wrong. (⌘D in Finder) For my example here, I modified the non-app store version of VectorDesigner
In Terminal, cd /Applications/VectorDesigner.app/Contents/MacOS
mv VectorDesigner VectorDesigner\ copy (substitute the name of your app here
pico VectorDesigner (or your editor of choice) and add the contents of your script.

I used this script
```
 #!/bin/sh
 osascript -e "tell Application \"Finder\" to display alert \"Hello World\""
 /Applications/VectorDesigner.app/Contents/MacOS/VectorDesigner\ copy
```
The important thing is for the last line to call the renamed executable.
chmod a+x VectorDesigner

Now, when I double-click the VectorDesigner icon, I get the "Hello World" window, then it launches the original program.

Mass change a portion of a file name

If you use the ZSH shell, this can be done easily in Terminal with zmv (included with OS X by default). Why use fancy scripts if the work is already done?

Type zsh in a terminal window if for some crazy reason you do not have it set as your default shell.

autoload zmv
zmv 'ADVANTE(*)' 'ADVANTI$1'

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