[pwinnski]

I don't know what version of MacOS you're on, but the commands in this article, even de-styled to take them out of ALL-CAPS, do not work on macOS Catalina.

`ls ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.lx` does not reveal com.apple.launchservices-anything.

`ls ~/Library/Preferences/xquaranx` does not reveal any file with quarantine in the name.

That my computer logs when it quarantines something, I don't doubt, but this article is very much out of date.

P.S. I couldn't figure out how to consistently include asterisks above, so I substituted 'x'

[filleduchaos]

If you're a long-time user of macOS you should be aware by now that it uses a case-sensitive filesystem.

The `com.apple.LaunchServices` and `com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV2` (renamed) user-level preferences still very much exist.

[bydo]

The modern Mac can use two case-sensitive-capable file systems, HFS+ and APFS. Neither is case-sensitive by default and, at least for many years, formatting the system volume to be case-sensitive caused a lot of problems with applications.

[filleduchaos]

yes case preserving not case sensitive

[alanfranz]

> If you're a long-time user of macOS you should be aware by now that it uses a case-sensitive filesystem.

No, by default it's case-insensitive.

[filleduchaos]

Yes on a second read I meant a case-preserving, not case-sensitive filesystem. The results that `ls` gets are cased and so pattern matching (which is case sensitive by default) on those results will fail with the wrong casing.

[pwinnski]

If you read the linked article, you'd note that the article completely destroyed any indication of case by forcing ALL COMMANDS INTO ALL-UPPER-CASE.

But yes, I guessed wrongly.