what's the difference between canonicalpath and absolutepath? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here is a canonical path.

C:/files/foo.txt

Here are absolute paths

• C:/files/FOO.TXT

• C:/files/FOO.txt

• C:/files/foo.TXT

• C:/FILES/FOO.TXT

A canonical path is an absolute unique path to the file. A file can have only one canonical path and many absolute paths.

A file can have only have one canonical path which is the file path of the file. A file can have many absolute paths to the file.