I’m trying to move a file from a folder to another that contains a file with the same name, the only difference is they have different capitalizations (one is Zenith.md and the other one ZENITH.md).
When I try to move the file nothing happens.
If they had exactly the same capitalization Obsidian would add .1 to the second file which is the expected behavior but I believe it should be case insensitive in this case, as the system sees them as the same file, so should Obsidian.
Environment
Obsidian version: v1.6.7
Installer version: v1.6.7
Operating system: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22621
I just checked on MacOS where I thought it was allowed to have both files together, but MacOS blocks it too. I had wondered if it was just a Windows thing, but no.
So +1
Maybe they’ll end up moving this to Feature Requests, but I agree it should either act consistently, or at least give a warning or feedback that the operation failed.
Moving by dragging, or via the command results in the same silent failure.
At the very least, Obsidian should pop open the standard macOS response to attempting to move a file into a folder if another file with the same name exists in that folder:
