I have installed snow leopard on a macbook ans selected case-sensitive file system when partitioning the disk, presuming that it's a standard thing and I'd rather have this system behaving as close as possible to.nix shell. Although when trying to install Photoshop CS5 recently I got an error message saying that case-sensitive file system cannot be used for installation. Apparently reason is some issues in Apple installer system, which Adobe developers cannot find their way around. So it looks like I will have to convert the case-sensitive FS to a case-insensitive one. Are there any tools capable of doing that? Doesn't have to run under macos, anything will do, really (bootable CDs etc). I converted the default case-sensitive HFS+ partition to a case insensitive one after discovering the problem after installing a new MacBook.
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I assume here that you have enough disk space on your internal hard drive to duplicate the data and system files that you already have installed. Use Disk Utility to shrink the size of your existing boot partition to just big enough to contain the existing files. Create a new partition that is only Mac OS (Journaled) and is NOT case sensitive. Backup the original drive to the new partition. I used but you can use. Boot holding down the Command key and select the new partition. Delete the old partition with Disk Utility and increase the size of the new one.
I had to use the 'Smart Update' option, which is a paid feature. Steps I took: 1) use Disk Utility to shrink main partition and create new partition (2) backup all files to new partition with SuperDuper (3) reboot into the new partition (4) erase the main partition and format as HFS+ Journaled (case insensitive) (5) backup all files to the reformated main partition using 'Smart Update' in SuperDuper so that it would not reformat the drive as case-sensitive (6) boot into main drive (7) use Disk Utility to delete the partition I created earlier, and grow the main partition back to fill the drive – Mar 13 '17 at 19:10.
It is possible to migrate a case sensitive file system onto a case insensitive file system if you don't have name like: /directory/file /directory/FILE in which case these 2 files should be copied with the same name thus causing an overwriting. Any decent program to propose this file system migration should warn you about this name collision. If Adobe Photoshop refuses to install on a case sensitive file system this is coming from an internal protection to avoid crashes. The truth is that Adobe Photoshop was never written to take care of the case of internal file names.
This is the reason why Adobe Photoshop will never run on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD or any other Unix. Adobe never considered quality of software and security as serious business objectives. Their recent is the due reward of such a bad care.
This is a shame. But you have the freedom to pay to support them in this way.
Update on iPartition. Over the weekend I used v. 3.6.2 to convert the 1 TB internal flash drive on a MacBook Pro running Sierra (10.12.6) from case-sensitive to case-insensitive. As noted above, you have to make a separate bootable disk with iPartition on it. Since recent macOS installs require so much room, Coriolis Systems deleted the option for generating a DVD for boot several versions back. I used an external clone of my system drive.
Since you are booting off a new disk, you have to re-activate iPartition after rebooting, so make sure to copy the license image (a png with a QR code on it) over to the external bootable drive as well as the app. Once booted on the external drive, it was simple to select the filesystem for conversion, uncheck the box for 'Case Sensitive', and click Go.
After maybe 15 minutes, it was done. Rebooting off the internal drive worked fine, as did all of the apps I tried for a quick test.
A few caveats: iPartition does not currently support the new AFS, so it will NOT run on High Sierra (10.13). It does not support CoreStorage, so if your drive in encrypted by FileVault 2, you have to turn off FileVault and wait until the decryption process runs to completion before you start. If you have a Fusion drive, you're out of luck.
Also, it warns you that if you have any files in a directory with names differing only by case, it will rename one of them as part of the conversion. All in all, it was a fairly easy process, and well worth the price of the software.