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): Screen shot of a listing with a before A

With case-sensitive HFS Plus (a after Z):

Screen shot of a listing with a after Z