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':' was the traditional directory separator on Macintosh systems before OSX, therefore it can't be used on HFS+ either. I remember there being some FS funk when
by boondaburrah 5y ago
':' was the traditional directory separator on Macintosh systems before OSX, therefore it can't be used on HFS+ either. I remember there being some FS funk when OSX came out since it was very common for people to put dates in their filenames using slashes, and well, UNIX doesn't like that. I don't know what APFS does.
- fanf2 5y agoAs I understand it, : and / get swapped depending on whether you use unix APIs (/ is a directory separator, : is plain) or mac APIs (: is a directory separator and / is plain)
- pletnes 5y agoFrom what I recall (had a macbook years ago) I could put colons in filenames in the terminal, but not in finder.