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10.4: Use Adobe Creative Suite with case-sensitive HFS
Authored by: Anidel on May 16, '05 03:27:17PM

Everything the response said was true. Case insensitive file systems are "poorly designed" (speaking only about the case-sensitiveness) file systems. Case insensitive ones are not. I would be very happy to have a choice of installing a case sensitive one. When I installed Tiger it gave me the option to use a case sensitive HFS file system and I was really tempted in using it. But then I thought about all those well designed apps that for ages relied on a poorly designed file system and that will not work on the new HFS.

The fact itself that Apple "patched" HFS to make it case sensitive is a sympton of them having recognized a mistake made many years ago. And trying to fix it.
New applications and new versions of old applications will now be aware that sooner or later they'll have to be case sensitive too.
And that's a good thing.


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Anidel



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