Restart your Mac, and then hold down Command-R before the Apple logo appears to bring up macOS Recovery. Click Disk Utility in the list of options that appears. Select the internal drive or boot.
Most, but not all, of OSX is not case-sensitive. When you format a disk you can choose a case-sensitive file system, but it is not recommended for the main OSX partition because some applications will fail (different parts of the application mistakenly use different case when referring to the same file).
If you need a case-sensitive file system for some special purpose, you can use another partition, or create a disk image file, with a case-sensitive format.
You can use upper and lower case in the short name when you create the account, and it will give your home folder a name with the matching upper and lower case. Changing the short name or home folder name can create problems. Often it is easier to just create a new account and copy files over.
Some parts of OSX (e.g. passwords) are purposely case-sensitive, some accidentally (some applications treat files differently if the extension is upper-case). Terminal commands are Unix, which is case-sensitive.
If you need a case-sensitive file system for some special purpose, you can use another partition, or create a disk image file, with a case-sensitive format.
You can use upper and lower case in the short name when you create the account, and it will give your home folder a name with the matching upper and lower case. Changing the short name or home folder name can create problems. Often it is easier to just create a new account and copy files over.
Some parts of OSX (e.g. passwords) are purposely case-sensitive, some accidentally (some applications treat files differently if the extension is upper-case). Terminal commands are Unix, which is case-sensitive.
Aug 12, 2007 11:46 PM
Mac Os Case Sensitive
- Found an awesome GIT tip for OSX users which are having problems with case-sensitivity and renaming of files. The issue occurs when you use the default OS X disk format (case-preserving, but not case-sensitive) and try to rename a file or folder in git by changing letters to uppercase/lowercase.
- In an attempt to outsmart Apple’s defaults, I chose to install Mac OS X on case-sensitive filesystem instead of the default case-insensitive one and, oh boy, was that a mistake! As I explained in a previous post: By default, Mac OS X’s filesystem is case-insensitive which means that /projects and /Projects refer.