Rename macos subfolders in my home directory to lowercase

I'm looking to change the casing of macOS's default folders (the ones that sit in my home folder) to lowercase.

~/myname/Desktop -> ~/myname/desktop
~/myname/Downloads -> ~/myname/downloads
~/myname/Music -> ~/myname/music

If possible, it'd be great to avoid moving the home folder itself, and play with symlinks.

Is it possible to do this?

Luke

Posted 2019-02-08T19:43:15.567

Reputation: 255

sudo mv ~/Downloads ~/downloads from terminal worked for me. I'm running Lion with default HFS+ settings (case preserving not case sensitive) - if you are on later version or different filesystem and it doesn't work edit results of diskutil info / into your question. – lx07 – 2019-02-08T22:00:59.577

@lx07 This seemed to work! Do you think it'll be dangerous to rename ~/Library, too? – Luke – 2019-02-11T17:38:38.373

No it will be fine - as long as you don't have case sensitive file system. I tried it to rename to ~/library and it caused no issue. – lx07 – 2019-02-11T21:40:53.787

Thank you! It worked well, no problems so far :) – Luke – 2019-02-14T06:57:47.890

Rename macos subfolders in my home directory to lowercase

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