On 20/05/2019 09:49, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 19/05/2019 19:19, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> ...
>> So I always end up with two copies - the original file and the
>> edited version.
> I forgot I had moved all my photos onto my NAS box
> and then mounted that in my pictures library under
>
On 19/05/2019 19:19, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> Hmm, odd. My NTFS filesystems on Windows all appear to be case
> sensitive. For example I have a photo editor that saves its files
> with a jpg extension but the files from my camera all end in JPG.
> So I always end up with two copies - the origi
On 5/19/19, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
>
> Hmm, odd. My NTFS filesystems on Windows all appear to be case
> sensitive. For example I have a photo editor that saves its files
> with a jpg extension but the files from my camera all end in JPG.
> So I always end up with two copies - the original fil
On 19/05/2019 01:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> That's not quite right -- case sensitivity of the OS isn't important,
> case sensitivity of the *file system* is. And the standard file system
> on Mac OS, HFS+, defaults to case-preserving but case-insensitive.
>
> (There is an option to turn case-
On 5/18/19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> That means that, like Windows file systems FAT and NTFS, file names are
> case-insensitive: files "Foo", "foo" and "FOO" are all considered the
> same. But unlike Windows, the file system preserves the case of the file
> as you created it, so if you created i
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:37:56AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> That's not quite right -- case sensitivity of the OS isn't important,
> case sensitivity of the *file system* is. And the standard file system
> on Mac OS, HFS+, defaults to case-preserving but case-insensitive.
>
> (There is an
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:52:29AM +0100, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 18/05/2019 03:14, Richard Damon wrote:
>
> > The same directory, running the same program under Mac OS X, which also
> > is a case insensitive file system,
>
> That is your mistake. Darwin, the core of the MacOS X system
On 5/17/19 8:14 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> I am working on a program to process some files created by an old
> windows program that created it files with varying case with a python
> program.
>
> Using glob.glob on Windows seems to ignore the case, and find all the
> matching files.
>
> The same
On 18/05/2019 03:14, Richard Damon wrote:
> The same directory, running the same program under Mac OS X, which also
> is a case insensitive file system,
That is your mistake. Darwin, the core of the MacOS X system
is a version of BSD Unix and like all Unix OS is very much
case sensitive.
Some o
