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I'm predominately a Linux user and I switched away from Mac OSX specifically because of the underlying file system. I'll admit that it was annoying finding win
by smoyer 9y ago
I'm predominately a Linux user and I switched away from Mac OSX specifically because of the underlying file system. I'll admit that it was annoying finding windows sometimes but the case-preserving, case-insensitive file system made no sense.
- M_Bakhtiari 9y agoWhy not just use it with a case-sensitive file system? Did it break some application you were relying on?
- lloydde 9y agoI wondered the same thing, but then acknowledged that adds a first step of formatting the disk / re-installing.
- M_Bakhtiari 9y agoWhich switching to Linux entails as well. I can think of a lot of reasons to abandon Mac OS X, but this seems like a really odd one to me.
- lloydde 9y agoCase-preserving,case-insensitive is good for less sophisticated users: prevents accidentally misplacing or duplicating files with capitalization; and simplifies through this constraint media listing and sorting — no worrying about jpg vs JPG. What are the use cases that bother you?
- Retra 9y agoWhen a file refuses to rename because the OS thinks it is the same name. When you have multiple files that differ in case, but they overwrite each other because the OS thinks they are the same. Really, the only place case-insensitive filenames makes sense is when you are searching. It makes no sense for any other reason.
- lloydde 9y agoFiles don't overwrite each other the operation is forced. All of the OSs I've used will prompt you before overwriting. I also like when an IDE detects and provides a warning when I have two variables with the same letters better different capitalization. Different case is often a bug.
- Retra 9y agoFiles definitely do overwrite each other without prompting in my terminal. And it is straight bullshit that MacOS doesn't care.