Is there a simple way to check in Python if a file system is case insensitive? I'm thinking in particular of file systems like HFS+ (OSX) and NTFS (Windows), where you can access the same file as f...

How do I access an external hard drive through bash-on-Ubuntu-on-windows. It doesn't seem to appear in either /media, /mnt or /dev, which seem the common places that people say to look for th...

I want to display the "Last opened" date in my App just like in the Finder preview or info panel. However I realized that this is NOT the same as the last access date that I would get with NSDate...

I am storing data about files that exist on a OSX HFS+ filesystem. I later want to iterate over the stored data and figure out if each file still exists. For my purposes, I care about filename case...

Preface I am working on a platform in-depended media database written in java where the media files are identified by a file hash. The user shall be able to move the files around, so I do NOT want ...

Macs normally operate on the HFS+ file system which normalizes paths. That is, if you save a file with accented é in it (u'\xe9') for example, and then do a os.listdir you will see that the filenam...

I need to create a mapping between file names generated on Windows and OS X. I know that OS X "converts all file names to decomposed Unicode" however, "most volume formats do not follow the exact s...

In Windows, I can use the FindNextChangeNotification API to watch a file or folder for changes. For example, I can watch a folder and get notified when a file is added or removed. Is there a simil...