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That's not convincing me that I have it backwards. I was responding to this point in the parent comment:

> many case insensitive hard drives would be copied into new machines and there would be millions of conflicts

I still don't see where you get a conflict copying the contents of a case-insensitive file system to a case-sensitive one.



> I still don't see where you get a conflict copying the contents of a case-insensitive file system to a case-sensitive one.

Because some apps create MyFile.txt and expect to be able to access it later by myfile.txt. Adobe's applications, for example.


I had no idea. That's horrifying.


Open up the various folders of Adobe's software (on Windows). The DLLs are a mish-mash of all lowercase and upper-lower mixes. Heck, open up System32; the DLLs there are definitely not case-sensitive capable (`kbd*.dll' being one example). In fact, I bet you there's at least one program on your computer that accesses the Program Files using `C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)' instead of `%programfiles(x86)%'. In fact, even environment variables aren't case-sensitive.




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