[X4U] Re: HFS+ is case-insensitive

Stroller macmonster at myrealbox.com
Wed Jun 28 10:34:57 PDT 2006


On 28 Jun 2006, at 17:45, Eugene wrote:
> ...
> I always found capitalization to be a useless feature of
> the English language.  Apple must certainly agree with me,
> because HFS+ is case-insensitive.  :-)

No, no, no!!
It is ADOBE that agrees with you.

As I recently discovered the hard way, you can choose to format  
Apple's HFS+ filesystems as case sensitive. But when you do so Adobe  
Creative Suite will no longer work. I believe this is because they  
are "lazy", as Mr Ameeti would say, and don't maintain correct  
capitalisation between their applications and their filenames. Of  
course, now you've got me started, I could remark that all Americans  
are lazy, misspelling "capitalisation" with a "z" and missing the "u"  
for "colour", but I'll refrain.   :P

Stroller.



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