Re: Rename nested folders
Re: Rename nested folders
- Subject: Re: Rename nested folders
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:19:08 -0400
Well, you're probably right. I'm shaky on my pre-X Mac history past
Version 7 or so. Didn't realize HFS+ predated OS X.
On 5/22/08, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 22/5/08 11:36 PM, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> slashes as displayed in Finder are really stored as colons on disk
>>
> Is that really so? I mean, HFS+ traditionally allowed slashes in filenames,
> and as far as I know HFS+ is still pretty much HFS+.
>
> Take the case of a Mac that's been running OS 9, and the user upgrades it to
> OS X. Does the upgrade somehow change the names of the files stored on the
> disk? Or are they still stored exactly as they were, the same bit of Unicode
> up to 255 characters, but Cocoa does some magic so it *sees* any slashes as
> colons (and stores any colons as slashes)?
>
> Academic, I know, but I'm just curious.
>
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