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Windows and NTFS support case sensitive filenames. The functionality is disabled for compatibility reasons.

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I remember the good old days of Windows MS-DOS where they had an 8 character filename limit lol

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8.3, actually!

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Gotta go count my files again… oh yeah it’s PROJE~14.BAS

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Same on macOS. Apple has “case-sensitive HFS+” as an option for UNIX compatibility (or at least they used to) but actually running a system on it is a bad idea in general.

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I actually really like that fsutil case sensitivity can be set on a folder by folder basis so that I can have a safe space to deal with Linux files.

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What happens if i put case sensitive files into an ntfs pendrive and plugged into windows?

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Windows sees both files

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Can it rename it then? What happens if cd into a folder from cmd with same name?

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You can create files with the same name differing only by case through WSL. I’ve had issues with it before.

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