It appears I have reached an impasse! Since day one of OS X Leopard, I did a fresh install on my iMac, just to clean things up after eighteen months of usage. It’s something I did on a regular basis with my Windows XP box prior to the Mac. Sometimes things go corrupt, or that demo of the latest whizbang left some strange registry settings or preferences around. I had studiously backed up all of my data, which weighed in at a hefty 120 Gigabytes. Even over Firewire 400, that’s a long time to copy data.
Then I installed Leopard on a case-sensitive HFS+ journaled filesystem. Any real computer science nerd with a UNIX background would want a case-sensitive filesystem, right?
Yes. But if you wanted to use 3rd-party applications, don’t.
That’s right, don’t do it! As obscure as the idea of case-insensitive volumes are, they are how Macs are designed to operate. Your Warcraft II: Reign of Chaos patch won’t work (renaming War3.mpq temporarily fixes that problem, but you’ll have to manually merge the map folders and rename the *.mpq after patching to launch the game) and Creative Suite 3 won’t install. It looks like I’m stuck using a different computer, reinstalling, or abandoning the whole idea. I’ll have to see what the Knowledgebase says about this.
Update: Nope, it’s not possible.
