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>At least the Mac Finder allows changing the case of a filename. Windows File Explorer simply refuses Just tested on Windows 10 and this is definitely not true

>At least the Mac Finder allows changing the case of a filename. Windows File Explorer simply refuses Just tested on Windows 10 and this is definitely not true. I could have sworn you could always do it, but my memory of Windows < 10 is foggy. And you can also do the renaming from any console app (cmd, powershell, etc), FYI. NTFS is case-preserving, but case-insensitive. That, IMO is a good balance. When they were first making NT with the posix subsystem, I suppose they found that the number of cases where two files that only differed in case lived in the same directory were small enough to not matter. I personally don't think case-sensitivity in file names adds anything useful.

tiraniddo 6y ago
If you enabled the posix subsystem NTFS became case sensitive as well, although most API passed a flag to disable that for Win32 file calls. It’s interesting that Microsoft effectively added the reverse feature to NTFS [1] to support per-directory case sensitive files to be more compatible with Linux. [1] https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-windows.html https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-w...
bxparks 6y ago
I swear that my Windows 10 File Explorer had this problem. Here is a user complaint about this problem from Nov 2019: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cant-rename-case-in-file-explorer/cc4f69e9-cc3b-44c1-b81c-773470d36b18 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cant-r... Here's another post from May 2018, explicitly mentioning Windows 10: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-cannot-change-filename-case/2f5f4e6d-9721-44f4-96ec-882fe66d8aa0 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-ca... But I checked again on my own Windows 10 machine (Windows 10 Pro, Version 2004, build 19041.450) and holy shit, it now works. It must have been fixed in a recent Window 10 update.

tiraniddo 6y ago

If you enabled the posix subsystem NTFS became case sensitive as well, although most API passed a flag to disable that for Win32 file calls. It’s interesting that Microsoft effectively added the reverse feature to NTFS [1] to support per-directory case sensitive files to be more compatible with Linux. [1] https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-windows.html https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-w...

bxparks 6y ago

I swear that my Windows 10 File Explorer had this problem. Here is a user complaint about this problem from Nov 2019: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cant-rename-case-in-file-explorer/cc4f69e9-cc3b-44c1-b81c-773470d36b18 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cant-r... Here's another post from May 2018, explicitly mentioning Windows 10: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-cannot-change-filename-case/2f5f4e6d-9721-44f4-96ec-882fe66d8aa0 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-ca... But I checked again on my own Windows 10 machine (Windows 10 Pro, Version 2004, build 19041.450) and holy shit, it now works. It must have been fixed in a recent Window 10 update.