{"id":202,"date":"2017-12-27T23:11:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/188.166.119.205\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-11-10T05:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:52:01","slug":"osx-and-case-sensitive-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/?p=202&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"OSX and case-sensitive file system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really angry now.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, when I was finished my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/banyek\/mybckchk\">MySQL backend checker<\/a> I lost about two hours of work because I wasn&#8217;t commit anything to git, but I overwrote the working file with one of my doodle files &#8211; which file had the same name but with camel case. I had a default APFS filesystem (on High Sierra) &#8211; which is not case sensitive. This was a real amateur mistake I admit it, but the damage was done, I had to recreate everything (actually the second time I was way faster, it took around an hour.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I had to reinstall my computer anyhow, so when I get to the point to decide what kind of filesystem I want to use, I haughtily selected &#8216;CASE SENSITIVE&#8217;. &#8220;Yes, please give me a good, old-fashioned Linux-like case-sensitive file system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I did not use this laptop too much so far (this is a different story, maybe I&#8217;ll talk about it later), so it is still not too comfy but before we went to the in-laws I decided to install Steam on it, to bring a few games with me.<\/p>\n<p>And Steam is not starting. It just launches, but don&#8217;t display the login form.<\/p>\n<p>After a few minutes of googling it seems, Steam is not working with the case-sensitive file system under OSX and now I am contemplating about I should reinstall this laptop\u00a0<em>again. <\/em>Not because of Steam, I can live without it &#8211; I do have a desktop PC so if I want to play a game, I can do it on that machine, but I am thinking if Steam is not working, maybe other software won&#8217;t work as well, and now it is way less uncomfortable to do this reinstall. Actually, the installer informed me about that, so owe the devil with this work.<\/p>\n<p>But I am still angry about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really angry now. A few weeks ago, when I was finished my MySQL backend checker I lost about two hours of work because I wasn&#8217;t commit anything to git, but I overwrote the working file with one of my doodle files &#8211; which file had the same name but with camel case. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,134],"tags":[164,166,168,126,136,130],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-en","category-tech-en","tag-case-sensitive-en","tag-filesystem-en","tag-laptop-en","tag-oldblog-en","tag-osx-en","tag-work-env-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banyek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}