[hasker]

I have lost faith in Adobe because they cannot get their products working on case sensitive HFS volumes. The problem has existed for almost a decade I think. The fact that one cannot install Creative Suite on another volume makes it even worse.

[Moto7451]

Slightly more sickening is that for some of their apps it can be fixed by simply renaming directories and libraries within the App bundle. I googled around for a bit a few months ago and got PS and InDesign working on a machine with Case Sensitive formatting. This sort of laziness just kill me.

One example of the tail wagging the dog: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3311504

[jkap]

This may be somewhat irrelevant, but what is the motivation for having a case-sensitive HFS volume? I agree that Adobe should support it (and separate volume installation) because these are edge cases that should be accounted for, but I've never heard the reasoning for having a case-sensitive format.

[hasker]

I just always have done it because I want my mac to act like a normal UNIX system. I suppose it was kind of a principle thing.

[bigiain]

This is why I do it. To make my local dev system a bit closer to my (typically linux) deployment systems.

(I remember wasting a lot of time once on a rookie mistake where I had a Perl script with "use Strict;" in it instead of "use strict;", it worked fine on Mac OS (OS9, in this case), but failed in at-the-time-inexplicable ways when deployed on unix. I suspect my habig of insisting on choosing case-sensitive filesystem stems largely from that… And yeah, doing perl/cgi webdev on Mac OS9 was a really bad idea, I discovered.)

[Moto7451]

I presume it partially is due to POSIX. Here's an errata from MS about that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100625

(TLDR: NTFS itself is Case sensitive even though the Win32 API isn't because NT was/is designed for POSIX compliance)

[danssig]

I would say the stupidity here is any modern OS still having case sensitive file systems.

[zackmorris]

iOS is case sensitive (and it bit me), way to go Apple... http://www.enavigo.com/2012/02/12/xcode-ios-simulator-is-cas...