HFS had file IDs. I'm not sure about HFS+. You could open a file by its ID.
Suppose you had a file on the desktop then copied it into a folder.
Or alternatively you have a file in a folder and copy it to the
desktop. The file IDs for each scenario will be different.
(Hope that makes sense.)
Mike Crawford, Baritone
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One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light.
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Ken Cunningham
<ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oh -- did you know that the filenames displayed in finder do not have to
>> have any correlation to the filenames as seen by the shell and other
>> programs? Or that Finder is perfectly happy to display two different "files
>> with the same name"?
>
> In fact, I did notice that, and was rather confused by it. Maybe a fresh look
> in the morning might sort that out!
>
> Ken
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