{"id":13,"date":"2008-02-18T22:38:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:50:27","slug":"ps-cs3-case-sensitive-mac-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/ps-cs3-case-sensitive-mac-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"PS CS3 on a Case-sensitive Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two and a half hours I&#8217;ve patiently sat installing Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard (it&#8217;s very nice, but more about that later). During the installation I was asked whether I wanted to format my drive as case-sensitive or case-<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">in<\/span>sensitive. Because I play around with code a fair bit, I plumped for the former. Everything worked fine until I tried to install Photoshop CS3 Extended Edition, at which point I was greeted with the following message:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/20080218.jpg\" title=\"Photoshop CS3 installer refusing to play ball with a case-sensitive file system\" alt=\"Photoshop CS3 installer refusing to play ball with a case-sensitive file system\" \/>That&#8217;s right, Photoshop CS3 will not install on case-sensitive systems. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&amp;q=photoshop+cs3+case-sensitive&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google search for problems with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and case-sensitivity\" rel=\"noopener\">quick Google<\/a> reveals that quite a few people have run into this problem. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginationunbound.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/adobe-photoshop-cs3-on-mac-os-x-case.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Renaming files to run PSCS3 on a case-sensitive file system\" rel=\"noopener\">ways around it<\/a>, but they&#8217;re a bit convoluted, and the various authors do all seem to admit that they haven&#8217;t tried every feature. One solution even involves dealing with a message prompt every time you open CS3. To be fair, Adobe have acknowledged the issue, [article no longer on the Adobe website] but they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/10\/adobe_apps_on_l.html\" title=\"John Nack's Adobe blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also said that<\/a> &#8220;lacking a case for the user benefit provided by case sensitivity&#8221; they don&#8217;t intend to do anything about it any time soon. So it looks like I&#8217;m re-installing Leopard this evening; today&#8217;s lesson is that if you&#8217;re going to run Photoshop CS3 on a Mac, please please please don&#8217;t choose a case-sensitive format for your hard drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two and a half hours I&#8217;ve patiently&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[13,17,52,71,152,185,248],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-photography","tag-adobe","tag-apple","tag-case-sensitive","tag-cs3","tag-journaled","tag-mac","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}