Copying folders & files from case-sensitive to non-case-sensitive volume

I'm trying to copy a rather large (60+ GB), folder and all its enclosed items from a volume that is has case sensitive file names to one that does not. The copy operation always stops when it comes across a duplicate file/folder name differing only in the case of some of the characters. The folders/files in question are actually not duplicates, so I would like to change the file name of the duplicate by appending anything to the filename.
The copy operation does not provide any choice but to abort the operation when it finds the first identical file or folder name differing only in case..
Any suggestions?

Unfortunately, that is not a viable solution, as I am tring to convert a case sensitive volume to a non-case sensitive volume.
What I would like is a method to copy files and when a duplicate occurs it asks me what to do like rename the second duplicate. However this problem is now moot, as I painstakingly renamed each offending file/folder as each error occured, and then restarted the copy.
While the question is not answered, I am marking it as such because I am now past the problem.
Thanks for your response.

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