What does it mean "the volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup"?

Thanks Freddy! That solved my problem, too. Had a sparse image of an old MacBook Pro from 5 yrs. ago. Didn't know if there was anything important on it, so wanted to dump it off one external drive onto another, just . Opened up the image, saw all the files, but couldn't drag them to my other drive. Got the same error about case-sensitivity. Simply dragged the latest, largest backup into the trash. It asked for my password, then dumped it. Them I simply dragged it out of the trash onto my other drive, and all files are now accessible. Thanks!

Hi Freddy, man, I hope you are still around to expand on your comment.

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on an iMac from 2008 which of course is out of Apple Support.

I have a Samsung external drive with my Time Machine backups on it, and need to grab my old GarageBand projects from a 2012 TM backup.

I can call up the backup in TM, see the files right there on the screen, but when I try to restore to any location, I get the "case sensitivity" error message.

I think your solution of putting the files in the trash was a great idea, and I want to try it, but once I get the .band files highlighted, how do I drag them to the trash? There is no trash can in sight inside the TM, and anything I do that involves the "Restore" button give me the error message. I can right-click the highlighted file and get a menu of options that have the word "delete" in them, is this what I should select? Sounds so ominous, and I really don't want to delete my projects! Can you tell me more detail about how to get the highlighted files into a trashcan somewhere, anywhere, so I can move them to a folder?

This is the closest thing to an answer I have come across, nothing else I've tried from any other threads has been useful.

Please, anyone, I need your help! Thanks in advance.

As always, thanks for the lesson.

Thanks for popping in. Didn't know that TM formats disks as case-sensitive.

Yeah, apparently because someone may want to back up a case-sensitve volume. We try to advise folks to format drives as case-ignorant themselves, but . . .

So, TM defaults to case-sensitive formatting? That's strange, since Macs normally don't use that for anything.😕

Glad this thread exists. I was having this exact problem.

Thank you for this! I was having this exact same problem. Hadn't yet thought to look at the formatting on the original drive. Thank you!

I've tried restoring both ways. Comman R on power on and by just launching tm

The internal drive is the standard Mac format. I believe it was OS extended journaled.

The external says case sensitive.

I'm having the same problem and both drives are formated the same

Amazing, help still tells you do do it one way, when TM does it on it's own another way. The help was completely useless and I was getting very frustrated. This thread solved my issues!

Now it gets weirder. Despite the error message, it now looks like it actually DID restore (some or all) my data. Still working to figure this out. Stand by..

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.

I see. Thank you, I missed that.

Use the trash bin to move it. Best hack ever!