Cannot run a a case sensitive drive? that is crap, lazy programmers, shoddy!

I am certainly not going to make my Mac case insensitive just to run Photoshop!

What Chris has resisted saying (cause well, after all these years he's learned to be PC) is that it ain't Adobe's fault...they've bent over backwards to deal with the issue and the bottom line is that Apple's own tools fail to provide a solution for an application the size of Photoshop (and other Adobe apps).
Photoshop ain't an App Store application....it's a real big time, heavy duty app that still (sadly) must use the system level APIs and OS services...sometimes those tools are somewhat South of optimal...(both Apple and MSFT suffer from this but often in frustratingly different ways).
But yapping at Adobe like their engineers are a subspecies doesn't help...and if the OP had half a clue he/she/it should have known that.

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    Whether it is Apple or Adobe's work flow isn't the issue.  Between the two
    of them, if they are going to support both naming variants, then at both
    Adobe and Apple:
    1.  You MUST use the same case file names.  (E.g. FrameWorks and not
    Frameworks) EVERY time.  And refer to them in your programs and
    configuration files the same way EVERY time.
    2.  You may NOT in your development code use different but case invariant
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    3.  Your libraries must do the Right Thing.
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    needs to abandon Apple development software, and roll their own outside the
    standard system libaries.
    Further searching shows that it is not a problem unique to Adobe.  The
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    case sensitive file systems would be fairly easy.   It would impose some
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    I bought a copy of Adobe Creative Suite.  I returned it unopened.  You lost
    a sale.  Furthermore, until it is fixed, I will mention this at every
    opportuity as an exampled of a combination of sloppy workmanship, and
    customer indifference on the part of Adobe.
    Tell your bosses, Chris, they need to fix this.
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    Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests

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    -Chat http://www.adobe.com/support/download-install/supportinfo/

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