What is HFS case sensitive file system

What is HFS case sensitive file system?

FlowerChick,
a HFS case-sensitive filesystem would allow you to have files that differ only by case in the same folder; for example, you could have different files named “FlowerChick” and “flowerchick” in the same folder. On a case-insensitive filesystem, that wouldn’t be allowed.

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Hello,
The first thing I'll say is that I already know it's not possible to install on a case-sensitive file system.
So, on to my question. I have been tasked to find out a way to get this installed on our 30-35 Macs with case-sensitive file systems (required for other courses/tasks, so not an option to format.) I was trying to think of a work-around that would let me install and use the CS5.5 Master Collection, but have not been successful yet. Please note, I am not looking for a hack or extensive renaming of a bunch of files or other half-solutions I've found.
Basically, what I was wondering is, if I go into Disk Utility and create a 35GB "Disk Image", mount that, and then try to install, why doesn't that work? I mean, I am technically trying to install to a case-insensitive file system at that point, but CS5.5 still pops up with an error. Has anyone gotten this type of solution to work, or any other for that matter? Luckily my college hasn't bought the licenses for all these systems yet, but when a solution is found, they're jumping on it right away. The main reason I don't want a "hacky" solution is that being deployed on 30-35 systems, this has to be a simple solution, not something that takes hours per system.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
Jeffrey Simmons

Thank you for the information, I had a hunch it was installing stuff elsewhere too, but wasn't 100% sure. As for the problem, I ended up just converting to a case-insensitive boot partition. To others who may want to do this, I used iPartition without a problem. The only catch is, you can't just run it from the OS drive, you either have to burn a iPartition Boot DVD (requires you have your OS dvd as well), or do what I did and just install OSX to an external drive, install iPartition, then convert the file system on the regular OS drive. A bit of a hassle, but you don't have to format your system.
CS5.5 Master Collection then installed fine, with no problems. Unfortunately, Photoshop keeps repeatedly crashing. It's fine for hours, then crashes 4+ times within an hour. Repeats this over and over unfortunately. Adobe support hasn't been helpful at all, so I'm just going to return this software and continue using Gimp. It has always done everything I wanted, but I wanted the "name brand" software. In the end, it's not worth the hassle, and definitely not worth losing my work over and over, so back to the store it goes. Thanks again for taking the time to help out though.
Jeffrey Simmons

ColdFusion Builder with case sensitive file system on Mac?

Hi there,
I tried to install CF Builder on my MacBook Pro (Intel), OS-X 10.5.7 with case sensitive file system. Installation went smoothly, but, when I try to launch CF Builder, I get an error saying that the "architecture is not supported". Is it just nor possible to have CF Builder on a case sensitive fs?
Thank you
Chris

I am having the same issue and logged in here to see what the deal is.
After I installed cfbuilder my flex builder crapped out as well.
The cfbuilder logs (which were conveniently scattered throughout my system for no reason) report that I am running:
java.vm.version == 1.5.0_19-137
But if I run "java -version" in terminal I get:
daves-macbook-pro-2:~ Dave$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_13"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03-211)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.3-b02-83, mixed mode)
"Is JDK 1.5 available in the system"
Definale "available"...
Does it exist? yes
Is it set to default? no

CS4 and Case Sensitive File Systems

Does anyone know if CS4 will support case sensitive file systems?

While I do wish all software companies including Apple completely
supported the case-sensitive file system. Many don't. I cannot pull up
an article, but I remember reading that Apple only recommended the use
of the case-sensitive file system for OS X server and if memory serves
even for that it only recommended it for the attached hard drives.
We can lament the lack of support but if you really want to change the
status quo for Adobe products then the only useful way to do so is:
...Mike

Case-Sensitive File System?

I downloaded the trial for Flash CS4 pro and it won't install on my computer.
It says:
System Requirements Error
This software cannot be installed because the file system of the OS volume is not supported. The OS volume should be local , writable and should have non case-sensitive file system
Anything I can do to get it to work? I have a MBP running Leopard on an intel processor.
Message was edited by: guynjoan

guynjoan wrote:
The hard drive is internal. And Adobe tech doesn't work on the weekends. I checked the "get info" on my hd and it said it is case-sensitive,
that's your problem. Lots of apps have problems with case sensitive drives so you should never use case sensitive file system unless you have a compelling reason to do so. Your only recourse now is to move your data to a non case sensitive drive. Clone your hard drive to an external drive, boot from the leopard install DVD, reformat the drive non case sensitive and install leopard on it. then use migration assistant to migrate your data from the external.

HFS and case sensitive file systems

I recently received a pre-installed Macbook. The file system is HFS+ (Apple_HFS according to 'diskutil list').
This file system is not case sensitive but I would like it to be. Is there a way to deactivate the HFS wrapper responsible for that without formatting the disk and re-installing the OS from scratch ?

I got issues synchronizing my linux account with my macosx account
If it's home directory contents that's the issue, you might consider simply partitioning your drive and creating a separate home directory partition that is case sensitive, separate from the boot partition tht is not.
Assuming you're on an Intel-based machine, you can resize the existing partition to make room, then create a new case-sensitive partition and move your home directory there.
Now your account synchronization shouldn't have an issue and you didn't have to re-install the entire OS.

CS5 install on case-sensitive file system - can't choose different drive (Mac OS)

I just upgraded my macbook pro to a new drive and 10.6, and chose 'case sensitive' HFSX, 'cause I'm a heavy command line user and wanted the maximum BASH experience.
I'm trying to install the CS5 demo to try some web design tools, and the installer immediately says "Installation to case-sensitive drives is not supported. Please choose a different drive location to install." So case-sensitive drives aren't supported; crappy but fair enough.
The error message leads me to think that I can just choose a non-case-sensitive drive to install to, but I never get a chance to pick one - I click on the installer and it goes straight to the error message.
So - how do I pick a different drive to install to? Am I just an idoit, is there no way to select a different drive, or will it not install on a system that even BOOTS from a c.s. drive, regardless of the format of the drive that CS5 is installed to?
I called the support number, and the poor fellow on the other end suggested I re-download the demo, and if the new download fails call Apple support to report my 'drive error'.
I'm hoping to avoid an entire backup-reformat-restore and lose CLI compatibility just to try some demo software.
ch

That is part of why I would prefer case sensitive by default.   I know some server packages do the folding for you, same as some web servers do not differentiate between 'htm' and 'html' when people type in requests, but most of the time the backend server is going to be case sensitive and it is not safe to assume (or hope) that the service will fix things. Compensating for mistakes is fine, but allowing such silent corruption is not a terribly laudable things and it encourage people be careless.
Every once in a while I do encounter someone submitting some work where their configuration values and file names do not match, and 'well my laptop silently fixes it for me since it does not care' is a poor excuse. And if I sent broken filenames upstream or even worse commit them to be used on a server, that is a pretty significant professional failure.
Back to Adobe specifically, I have been trying the suggestion on poster mentioned in where one installs the Adobe applications to a case insensitive drive then copy over the installed files. This does not quite work out of the box, but for reasons I would be hard pressed to believe are Apple's fault.
For instance the first error I encounter is the inability of Bridge to load:
"@executable_path/../Frameworks/WRServices.framework/Versions/A/WRServices"
When I go look inside the app directories I can see that in Bridge the file has been named 'awrservices', but in Illustrator it is correctly named AWRServices.   So it looks more like a problem in whatever version control they are using. The only way I can picture (which my adminitialy limited knowledge of what I am sure is a large and complex project with all sorts of legacy issues) that the installer toolchain factors in as a problem is if they have mismatches in their own scripts/packaging and have been depending on HFS's bad behavior to hide the problem. I can understand not wanting to invest the time to pay down the technical debt on such an issue, but having such errors in your configuration causes long term headaches.
And I say this as someone who worked on just such a project, moving a software suite that had legacy code stretching back longer than Adobe has existed as a company. This conversion included moving from a case insenstive filesystem to a case sensitive one and yeah, there were lots of problems that the old FAT32 system hid from us, but it really paid off over the long run to fix them rather than try to twist the code to compensate.
Having said that, if the problem is really that they do not want to go update their filenames (in version control or config files), then you can always add folding to your loaders. I have had to do that a few times due to upstream people developing on case insensitive systems and sending data files with incorrect file names. This is an old class of problem, and while I can empathize with the struggles project managers have trying to get approval for paying down technical debt, the problem never gets better on its own and usually gets worse.
Which is why I responded with so much grump to the 'I never needed it' argument since that is exactly the type of customer comment that marketing tends to point to in order to push such things off the schedule. This is the type of thing where the customer does not really know what they want because they are already accustomed to broken behavior and most of the problems are hidden from their immediate view. It is easy to cover up the limitations since modern UI (and their search capabilities) can handle this.
It is not just arcane developers stuff, and it is the same transition that people have made with things like spaces, quotes, and parentheses, where years ago users believed they had no need for them since they were not using them, but they were only not using them because they did not work.   Today try to tell a modern user they can not put (, ", ) or even ' ' in their filenames and they would rightly question why this piece of obvious functionality is not working since today they are used to it working and no longer automatically compensate for it.
I also find it ironic that by default OSX hides a number of file extensions, so from the user's perspective you can have multiple files with the exact same name displayed to them, so you can get display issues where 'foo' is the same as 'foO' if both have .txt, but 'foo' and 'foO' are not the same if one has .txt while the other is .pdf. Add to this confusion cases like 'foo.txt' and 'foo.pdf" both being shortened to 'foo'.

Print dialog options in case sensitive file system

Since changing the file system running Lion and Mountain Lion from Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled), certain features in print dialogs have disappeared.
Particularly the option to print notes with slides in Microsoft Powerpoint are gone. Also, when choosing to print only 1 (or more, but not all) of multiple pages in Microsoft Word, the printer will nevertheless print all pages.
This problem occurs on printers of different brands, i.e. HP, Lexmark, Brother.
I was able to determine this problem by reproducing the issue on a cleanly installed Macbook Pro with OS X 10.8 formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) vs a cleanly installed Macbook Pro with OS X 10.8 formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), not Case-sensitive.
Has anyone else had the same problem and maybe a solution?

I just fixed this on my Mac. It is a bug in Microsoft Office... the Printer Dialog Extension (PDE) for Powerpoint is located in a directory named "Plugins", but PowerPoint is looking for it in "PlugIns". This obviously does not work in a case-sensitive filesystem.
Here are the steps to fix the issue:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/119974/69562

Can't turn on File Vault on HFS+(case-sensitive, journal)

Hi Guys
I can't turn on File Vault on HFS+(case-sensitive, journal), OSX10.4.8
I've done disk repair.
Thanks

Hello
I'm sorry I can't help you with your problem, but I do believe, that security-problems should for most users be solved in a different way (e.g. encrypted disk-images). Please read the following post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3583185&#3583185
Good luck!
senex

What mean applet load from file system.. till now i load by browser (is

just i heard about applet load in two way
1) from net (this is throw html )
2) from local file system. (What is this )
plszz

from local file system. (What is this )When the html file and the applet is on your harddisk and you open the html file in a browser.

Besides the obvious, does anyone have any info. as to what this means:"Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."

Besides the obvious, does anyone have any info. as to what this means:"Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."

what do you mean by the obvious?, it's a permission issue, ARD must run as systems administrator to boardcast, tunnel IPv6 calls, etc.

How can I copy media from an HFS case-sensitive drive to an HFS case-insensitive drive without getting an error?

About a year ago, I accidentally created a partition on my drive for my iTunes Music. On that parition, called MUSIC, I selected the filesystem to be an HFS, Journaled, case-sensitive partition. Since then, all of my music, new and old, lives on the case-sensitive MUSIC parition.
My other partition, called BOX, is an HFS, Journaled, case-insensitive filesystem, as are my external drives I use for archiving and backing up my music.
My dilemma: when I try to copy my music/iTunes media from the MUSIC partition to a different partition that's case-insensitive, I obviously run into errors saying that certain files can't be copied because they will overwrite others. Subsequently, I can't back up my music and iTunes media to another drive unless it has the same filesystem parameters favoring case-sensitivity. I want to move my media to a case-insenstive drive/partition.
As the story goes, I'd like to avoid having to reformat and worry about moving my media around because I feel, in the end, I'd end up doing more harm then good in my pursuit to fix this issue.
My question: is there some way I can detect which files are conflicting with each other, and then manually rename them? My music library runs about 16,000 songs deep, but I'd still feel saved even if I had to go through and manually rename all of the music files so they don't conflict with each other in order to get them on to a case-insensitive drive. Perhaps there's an AppleScript someone knows about that I could execute in my MUSIC partition to see which files/directories are causing my problems? In other words, I'm thinking there could be a way to detect the same file/directory names that are only different soley because of their case.
Any help, suggestions, or solutions are welcome. Thank you all for your time in helping me solve this!
And have a Happy Thanksgiving

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CAS Sharepoint/File System Question

If CAS is used to index Sharepoint or a file system with the appropriate adapter, can it be configured to know what changed or does it have to crawl the entire repository every night to index? If it crawls the entire system, does it re-index everything?

The answer is different between SharePoint and File Systems.
For File Systems, the crawler will go out and "touch" each file checking a variety of properties (Filename, size, date modified, owner, etc.) and if it recognizes a change in any of those properties, it will crawl that particular file and extract the content. If no change in those properties is detected, it will skip that file.
For SharePoint, I believe that it re-crawls the entire repository but the documentation is a little sparse in this area. Regardless, the record store is smart enough to keep the generations distinct and allow you to pull incremental updates between the two versions, even if they were both the result of a full crawl.
Patrick

QCOW LVM What would be the best file system ?

I would like to put my kvm instances (iso + qcow2 file) in separate logical volumes (I am using LVM).
I am just wondering if there is a better file system to handle just these two particular files.
Just ext2 ?
Thanks for any hints.

Hi,
Please check the article below
http://sharepoint.nauplius.net/2013/01/supported-file-formats-in-the-sharepoint-2013-media-web-part/
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/9c9eb5a4-89c2-4550-af32-e23e568849e7/what-file-type-is-the-best-video-format-to-house-in-sharepoint?forum=sharepointgenerallegacy
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Ho to reformat to a non case sensitive file

How to reformat to a non case sensitive file

If you want quotes around all the fields, and you currently
have quotes around
none of the fields, you could probably do this using
find-and-replace in a word processor.
Open up the CSV file with 'word' or a similar word processor.
The important thing is that the word processor must be able to do a
find and replace on 'special' characters, like 'return'.
Use find and replace to:
Replace all 'comma' characters with the sequence: quote comma
quote
Replace all 'return' characters with the sequence: quote
return quote
You should then find that your CSV text has quotes around
every record, but you'll have an extra quote character at the very
start and very end of the file (on separate lines), which you'll
need to delete by hand.
Of course, make a backup of your data first - and this won't
work if some of your columns already have quotes, or if some of
your fields actually use the 'comma' character inside the field
data.
- Ben

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