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The case of the case-sensitive formatted drive and Adobe Creative Cloud

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Jay Keim writes in with a sensitive question:</p>

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I have a refurbished 27ʺ iMac. I tried to install Adobe Creative Cloud on it and I got the error code that it could not be installed on a case-sensitive drive. So I backed everything up using Time Machine and an external hard drive and formated the drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). But when I restored using Time Machine it went back to Mac OS Extended (case-sensitive, Journaled). How do I make this computer non-case-sensitive?</p>

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You are not the only person to encounter this, but how frustrating when you weren’t the one who caused the problem. Case sensitivity is an option in formatting (http://www.macworld.com/article/2990837/storage/how-to-format-a-startup-drive-in-el-capitan.html), because Unix and Unix-similar operating systems always allowed case sensitivity. That is, they could distinguish between files that were “spelled” identically, but used a different mix of upper-case and lower-case letters. In case-sensitive filesystems, file.txt, FILE.TXT, and File.txt are all unique names.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2997233/storage/the-case-of-the-case-sensitive-formatted-drive-and-adobe-creative-cloud.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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