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JJJollyjim
Asked: 2011-01-31 11:14:24 +0800 CST

Case sensitive folder names in MAMP

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I'm not sure what site this question should be on, please feel free to move as necessary. I am working on a project in PHP where I need to differentiate between the folders 'a' and 'A'. When I run the script:

<?php

mkdir('A', 0700);
mkdir('a', 0700);

?>

Only 'A' is created. Is this a mac problem, or is there something in a config file that I can change?

case-sensitive mamp case-insensitive

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is something I think you set up while installing MacOS. If you have chosen non-case-sensitive - you'll have to back up your data... and reformat/reinstall.

    This is what I found googling for your problem: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=164713

    Hope this helps :)

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  2. It depends on the filesystem, NTFS is case insensitive, ext3, ext4 etc is case sensitive, HFS+ can be either and is setup during partition creation.

    I don't know if there is anyway to change this I've certainly not come across any method.

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