Is HFS really "scary"?

[James Sumners]

Fair enough. But if grandma is using a mouse is it really a problem?

On Feb 6, 2008 3:13 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh at apple.com> wrote:
> That's probably never going to happen.  When you're dealing with
> grandma on the phone and she's saying "I can't open my file named
> ``fluffy!''", the last thing you need is to go 10 rounds trying to
> figure out whether she actually named it Fluffy, fluffY or FlUFfY.
> That is why case insensitivity was added in the first place (and
> believe me, it was a lot more work than being case sensitive).
>
> At least modern Macs allow you to select case sensitivity as an
> option, vs having to know (as you did in the past) that this meant
> "UFS" instead of HFS (and all the problems that switching filesystem
> types entirely came with).
>
> - Jordan



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