Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger 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: 25 Feb 2017 18:20:31 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <1n20y9f.dbw0cx1p98fevN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> X-Trace: individual.net kR8o5netsozx8irzCrTz+g0kEHaqbFrVm+XD9g1KDZZZ9XEwJb Cancel-Lock: sha1:uPZ/+VNQGWb0e8I8pVvtprUaKxg= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:1483 On 2017-02-25, Ant 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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR