VERYVITO While you may not notice it in day-to-day drag-and-drog file operations, there are several reasons a case-sensitive OS is preferable. First, it allows more flexibility when naming files. This example is extreme, but an attorney might have two documents he wants to keep in an archive folder: MoleStationCase.doc (concerning Mole Station, MD) and MolestationCase.doc (concerning sexual misconduct). A glance could tell the names apart, but in a case-insensitive OS, they would overwrite one another. Also, consider the developer's convention of uppercasing class names, such as Button.java, to differentiate them from instance-level directives found in button.java. There are many reasons to choose case-sensitive file systems, and I think it's only for historical reasons that Apple even includes the non-sensitive option in OS X. (Version 7.5) |