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Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Oh it's even better, windows explorer can't really do case sensitive

But NTFS is a case sensitive file system

This occasionally manifests in mind boggling problems

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's super weird. I once named a file with mixed case, but one of the letters was the wrong case. Renaming the file didn't work at first. Renaming a file named PAscalCase.txt to PascalCase.txt resulted in no change to the filename. Windows continued to show it as PAscalCase.txt. I had to rename it to something totally different with different characters entirely, then rename it again to get it right.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Renaming it in Explorer does actually rename the file if all you change is the case (in current Windows, at least, see the pedantry below), but whatever mechanism Explorer uses to determine "has this file's name changed" is apparently case insensitive. So it won't refresh the file list. I imagine this is yet another one of those damn fool Windows 95 holdovers, or something.

You don't have to do any multiple-renaming jiggery pokery. Just press F5 to refresh that Explorer window and magically then it'll show you that the file's name was indeed changed all along.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can enable case sensitivity in windows. It's only disabled by default.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't do it though. It can only lead to problems, especially with poorly coded programs.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's generally fine, the vast majority of applications are fine with it, it's mainly the legacy shit that falls over.

You can also enable it on a per directory basis, and I've yet to encounter a Dev tool that has issues with it. Same for the path limit, you can have long paths enabled too.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same on MacOS - when you format a drive, you can pick whether it's case sensitive or not.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

NTFS is case insensitive because it's supposed to be more POSIX compatible than its precursors.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/backup-and-storage/fat-hpfs-and-ntfs-file-systems#posix-support

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Lol, I have a NTFS drive in a Linux container so I didn’t have to re download everything I had on windows works perfectly fine, now I’m assuming if I ever try to move it back to windows something horrible will break.