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[-] Saleh@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

I work with a lot of users and a lot of files in my job.

I don't remember a single case, where someone had an issue because of upper- or lowercase confusions.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Most of my frustration comes from combining cases insensitive folders/files with git and then running my code on another machine. If you aren’t coding where you have hundreds of files that import other files, I could see this being a non issues.

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

On a Linux environment? Mind sharing the usage area?

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Mostly Windows, and construction industry. So projects generate anywhere from a few hundred to up to a hundred thousand files.

Everyone has their own filesystem, and then you often have one formal and multiple informal exchange platforms. You still have people throwing around stuff in E-Mails too.

It is a mess. But in this mess i didn't come acrosse people complaining they couldnt find a file because of the letters case yet.

I see that it could be different for programmers, but i dont see that apples solution of treating upper and lowercase as identical name is the solution there, rather than working with explicit file naming conventions in the program.