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Specifying file paths (lemmy.ml)

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[–] mercano 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I might be wrong, but I think you still can't use a ':' in a filename in macOS. If I recall correctly it will let you do it and show it in Finder, but actually replace it with a '-'.