Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar

Hi,

> with tar into the Mac (all details about versions see below). The tar
> archive contains a lot of dirs and file (~30.000) and one dir is
> guru/Mail where a mbox file guru/Mail/purism exists. It also exists a
> plain file guru/mail (note: the dir is with capital M). This leads on
> extract to the problem that guru/Mail is also created as a plain file,
> not as a directory and afterwards guru/Mail/purism can't created in it.

I have used tar to save/restore/move a lot of user home directory and
never seen anything similar.

I have little to no experience wit MacOS, are the filenames case
insensitive on Mac?

Have you tried installing gnutar on Mac?

Also, you cound try with a small archive that would only contain one
directory and one file, both with the same name (except the capital).

Best regards,

Olivier