Is HFS really "scary"?

[James Sumners]

These things would probably get fixed Macs shipped with the case
sensitive filesystem installed. Personally, I was quite surprised that
the filesystem was case insensitive when I got my first Mac (a
PowerBook three years ago).

On Feb 6, 2008 2:31 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh at apple.com> wrote:
> That's a fair point.  Perhaps better to format a "work" partition as HFSX
> then and keep the system partition as HFS.  That way, you can at least check
> out sources and do various things which are tripped up by case insensitivity
> while still not running afoul of apps like this.
>
> - Jordan
>
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Scott C. Kennedy wrote:
>
>  But, then you have to deal with lazy developers & QA issues like...
>
> Microsoft Office 2004 Entourage can't understand timezone when using sync
> services
>
> cd /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office (or the appropriately situated
> place on your machine)
> ln -s timezones.xml Timezones.xml
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/utc
> Microsoft Office 2008 Entourage can't understand timezone when using sync
> services
>
>
> cd /Applications/Microsoft Office
> 2008/Office/EntourageCore.framework/Resources or the appropriately situated
> place on your machine)
> ln -s timezones.xml Timezones.xml
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/utc
>
> Symantec/Norton AntiVirus 10 & 11 can't run with case-sensitive filesystem.
> HR Block TaxCut 2007 can't find images or XML files to function.
> Feral Interactive - XIII - Game can't run when installed on case-sensitive
> filesystem.
>
>  And I keep finding more and more of them. :(
>
>  Scott
>  PS> Anyone else find any issues with Applications or Games?



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