What programs have trouble with case-sensitive (HFSX) filesystems, and how to fix them?
According to this question, Photoshop CS5 won't work on HFSX.
Convert a partition from case-sensitive to case-insensitive
MeshLab version 1.3.2 does not work on HSFX systems. The CFBundleExecutable
in Info.plist
specifies MeshLab
, but the binary in the Contents/MacOS folder is meshlab
. The solution is to edit Info.plist
(change MeshLab
to meshlab
) or:
cd meshlab.app/Contents/MacOS
ln -s meshlab MeshLab
A bug report has been filed here: https://sourceforge.net/p/meshlab/bugs/323/
Thing (beta, 1.6b24) does not work with HSFX. The solution is to rename or link the Versions
folder to versions
cd Things beta.app/Contents/Frameworks/CulturedRuntime.framework
ln -s Versions versions
Console 10.9 (536.100.1) in Maveicks, OS X 10.9.5 (13F1096)
The order of system log queries is dependent upon file system capabilities. This is troublesome only if you expect queries to be sorted alphabetically without case sensitivity.
With case-insensitive HFS Plus (a before A):
With case-sensitive HFS Plus (a after Z):