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Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS.

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS.
Date 2017-02-25 18:20 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <ehe07fFi3enU5@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2017-02-25, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 2/25/2017 6:13 AM, Lewis wrote:
>
>>> There are some Mac applications which don't work properly on case
>>> sensitive file systems, e.g. some versions of Adobe Creative Suite (if I
>>> remember right, this is due to inconsistent case in filenames which are
>>> supposed to refer to the same file installed as part of the suite).
>>
>> There are many, and I think no version of Adobe CS works on a
>> case-sensitive file system as I just heard someone talking about this
>> within the last month.
>>
>> As I recall, Steam also does not work and neither does World of
>> Warcraft, though that information might be old.
>>
>> Ah, at least for Blizzard that is correct. The requirements for the
>> latest expansion list for Mac OS X
>>
>> "Note: FileVault options and case-sensitive formatted volumes are not
>> supported for installation of Blizzard games."
>>
>> Not sure what "FileVault options" means.
>>
>> In other news, someone has managed to boot 10.12 on a APFS volume.
>
> Wow, that is crazy. I wonder if that is why I couldn't install 2008 Mac 
> Office into it. Yeah, that is weird for FileVault not to be supported. I 
> wonder what other limitations there are with Macs.

The default file system on Macs has *always* been case insensitive.
While there is an *option* to format a Mac volume with case sensitivity,
it's *not* recommended, because poorly-written software often has
problems operating correctly on case sensitive files systems. That's not
the fault of macOS - it's squarely the fault of the software developers
who wrote the malfunctioning applications. 

Bottom line: Unless you have a *very* *specific* *reason* to format a
Mac volume as case sensitive, you should *not* do it.

-- 
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JR

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Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 01:05 -0800
  Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-25 23:57 +1300
    Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-25 14:13 +0000
      Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 10:10 -0800
        Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-25 18:20 +0000
      Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-26 12:50 +1300
        Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-26 04:24 +0000
  Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-25 14:00 +0000
    Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 10:08 -0800
      Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-25 18:16 +0000
        Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 10:36 -0800
          Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-25 20:43 +0000
            Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 12:56 -0800
              Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-25 16:00 -0500
                Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 18:13 -0800
                Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-26 15:58 +1300
                Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-26 04:16 +0000
      Re: Unable to migrate TM's encrypted case sensitive datas to a new drive with non-case sensitive encrypted HFS. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-26 04:11 +0000

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