Case-sensitive to normal?

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Case-sensitive to normal?

Hi,

I have OS X El Capitan version 10.11.4 on MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", 2014). I am using mac for a month. Everything is great except one thing: CASE-SENSITIVE type of boot disk. Steam is ok, I can install it on another partition and other apps too, but Adobe soft can't. I would like to transform my case-sensitive disk to normal, but I am not sure how to do that. I don't wanna to lose my data. I have two tips.

1. iPartition - is it really save solution? Can it do that?

2. Carbon Copy Cloner - I have 30 trial version. My theory is - copy boot partition (case-sensitive) to second partition (not case-sensitive; both partition are on one disk) and make the second boot partition. After reformat the first one to none case-sensitive and copy data back and make it boot partition again. Is it solid solution? Have my theory mistakes? Do you have any experience or tutorial how to do that save?

Thanks for help, ideas and answer.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), Retina, 13", 2014

Posted on Apr 27, 2016 12:43 PM

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Linc Davis

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Apr 27, 2016 2:08 PM in response to DonKnize

You should be able to use either of the third-party applications "Carbon Copy Cloner" or "SuperDuper" (free for this purpose) to copy your case-sensitive volume to an empty case-insensitive one. Please make at least two such copies on different drives. One is not enough to be safe.

If there are any name conflicts—that is, files in the same folder with names that differ only in case, such as "File" and "file"—then you will either get an error or one of the files won't be copied. You must ensure either that no such conflicts exist, or that the consequences are not important. How you do that is up to you. Unless you went out of your way to create conflicts, they probably don't exist.

Then erase the source volume in Disk Utility as case-insensitive. This action will remove all data from the volume. If the volume is the startup volume, you must start up in Recovery mode or from another drive in order to erase it.

Restore from one of your backups using the same application you used to create it, or use the "Restore" feature of Disk Utility, which will be faster. Search its built-in help for the term "duplicate" if you need instructions.

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