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[–] waldfee@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Apple's filesystems in fact have an option for case-sensitivity.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

There are StringComparison options to pass that allow you to ignore case sensitivity when comparing. No need for ToLower.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then they're not the same path...

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

apfs is by default case-insensitiv, for some reason, so the paths would still be the same. It apparently even causes issues with some installers when macos runs on apfs(case-sensitive)