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"This is almost definitely why OS X uses case-insensitive HFS+ by default." See my other comment, whereby the Darwin team told me they use case-insensitive FS

"This is almost definitely why OS X uses case-insensitive HFS+ by default." See my other comment, whereby the Darwin team told me they use case-insensitive FS because Microsoft Office internally converts filenames to uppercase or lowercase at its' leisure, often several, if not tens of times during an operation. I could be wrong, the person / people I talked to could be incorrect, but I've never heard another explanation that was not speculation. Your reasoning all applies reasonably well to why Microsoft decided to buck the trend and go case insensitive, since case sensitive was the norm up until they came along afaik.

Moto7451 12y ago
Adobe products have had issues with HFS+ Case Sensitive FS for YEARS. It's part of why I moved away from them (along with not releasing patches for software 1-2 versions old on versions of OS X 1-2 versions newer). Here's a sample: http://tzvetkoff.net/posts/2013/05/20/adobe-cs6-on-case-sensitive-drives.html http://tzvetkoff.net/posts/2013/05/20/adobe-cs6-on-case-sens... http://superuser.com/questions/247920/install-adobe-cs5-on-mac-with-case-sensitive-filesystem http://superuser.com/questions/247920/install-adobe-cs5-on-m... http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/adobe-photoshop-cs3-osx-case-sensitive-filesystem-fixed/ http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/adobe-photoshop-cs3-osx...
cmurf 12y ago
From personal experience, Adobe applications have never worked on case-sensitive HFSX. Also with the legacy compatibility layers OS X shipped with up until 10.6, there were enough expectations on case-insensitivity that it was probably easier for them to just not risk a bunch of legacy apps not working anymore. And by the time 10.7 comes along there's enough momentum to just leave it alone. Their focus now is on Core Storage (an LVM like thing that doesn't have 1/2 the features of LVM), to the degree that now in 10.10 it's the default for both upgrades and new installations. So FWIW these volumes are no longer read/writable elsewhere like on linux or Windows.

Moto7451 12y ago

Adobe products have had issues with HFS+ Case Sensitive FS for YEARS. It's part of why I moved away from them (along with not releasing patches for software 1-2 versions old on versions of OS X 1-2 versions newer). Here's a sample: http://tzvetkoff.net/posts/2013/05/20/adobe-cs6-on-case-sensitive-drives.html http://tzvetkoff.net/posts/2013/05/20/adobe-cs6-on-case-sens... http://superuser.com/questions/247920/install-adobe-cs5-on-mac-with-case-sensitive-filesystem http://superuser.com/questions/247920/install-adobe-cs5-on-m... http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/adobe-photoshop-cs3-osx-case-sensitive-filesystem-fixed/ http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/adobe-photoshop-cs3-osx...

cmurf 12y ago

From personal experience, Adobe applications have never worked on case-sensitive HFSX. Also with the legacy compatibility layers OS X shipped with up until 10.6, there were enough expectations on case-insensitivity that it was probably easier for them to just not risk a bunch of legacy apps not working anymore. And by the time 10.7 comes along there's enough momentum to just leave it alone. Their focus now is on Core Storage (an LVM like thing that doesn't have 1/2 the features of LVM), to the degree that now in 10.10 it's the default for both upgrades and new installations. So FWIW these volumes are no longer read/writable elsewhere like on linux or Windows.