Sunday, January 21, 2007

Case Insensitive Filesystems

Man, they catch me every time :-)

I've just been troubleshooting my StarCraft and WarCraft III woes on MacOS X, and I found that all of my problems are due to me having chosen to format my drive as case sensitive HFS+ (this helps me find problems when I'm coding - we target UNIX platforms with case sensitive filesystems).

Fortunately there's a quick solution - just create a decent sized read/write disk image using disk utility. Mount that disk image by double-clicking it, then install as normal, but choose the disk image as your installation target.

What a trying day!

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