Re: HFSX convert to case-insensitive
Re: HFSX convert to case-insensitive
- Subject: Re: HFSX convert to case-insensitive
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:37:19 -0600
I ended up using CCC to clone the disk, reformat to case-insensitive HFS+, and restored from the clone. However, some files still have case-sensitive behaviors. Two examples, Chess.app and Mission Control.app have generic icons.
lsregister -kill -seed -lint produces, among other results, missing icns files.
Can't find referenced icon resource "Chess.icns".
Inside Chess.app/Contents/Resources is "chess.icns" not "Chess.icns". Changing the name to Chess.icns immediately restored the proper icon. Same for Mission Control, which is looking for Expose.icns, but what's in the package is expose.icns. Changing the name restores the icon. Changing the name back so far does not return the icon back to generic.
On a rant note, the impetus behind switching to case-insensitivity is Adobe Creative Suite 6. I find it quite irritating that modern applications still can't deal with a case sensitive file system, but in particular the installer produces no error message indicating the problem is due to a case-sensitive file system.
Chris Murphy
On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
> No, that is not all. There is a parameter in the Catalog file's BTHeaderRec for case-sensitivity, and actually that is the critical value; it is perfectly acceptable to have a version 5, HX file system that is case-insensitive. But, just changing these values isn't sufficient because the records in the Catalog file will sort differently, so it must be re-sorted.
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> There is a free, open-source utility that attempts this, but it failed on one volume I tried it on and corrupted it to the point I had to reformat. If you are not a file-system developer, I suggest trying the tool Chris Suter referred to (I haven't used it myself and I have no affiliation).
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