Re: Um... How do you rename a file?

• Subject: Re: Um... How do you rename a file?
• From: p3consulting <email@hidden>
• Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:48:15 +0100

On 26 Mar 2004, at 09:17, p3consulting wrote:

A latest small point:
case-sensitivity of the target file system may influence the success or
failure of a rename operation according to
the system call used by the application:
Finder (Carbon application) is successfull at renaming a file to
another case spelling: eg "foo" to "Foo"
where ProjectBuilder and Xcode (Cocoa application) both fail to.

In consequence, moving files from a case-sensitive file system to a
non-case sensitve one may turn out to be a tricky operation:
the set of files ("foo", "Foo") will generate the set of results
("foo", failure) if movePath:toPath is used.

For that particular aspect movePath:toPath is NOT equivalent to mv.

I don't know about you, but I consider that to be a bug.

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