Re: explorer.exe - case-sensitive filenames

"Homer J. Simpson" <root@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's what the KB article says, but when I try to do this, I get told
that there's already a file by that name on the disk. That would be
because Windows (any version) is case-insensitive when searching for
filenames. So I can't even figure out how to create the condition,
much less find a way to handle it.

I think that was just a bad idea that never went anywhere. I'm hoping
there's nothing out there that actually starts to *let* users put multiple
files in the same folder that only differ in their case--can you imagine how
many apps would then start misbehaving because of that?

It works fine in Unix systems. I don't think it's recommended
practice, particularly, but nothing in Unix/Linux has any problem
handling it.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
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