Finder Sidebar Broken in Leopard

[Andrew Merenbach]

On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:00 PM, macosx-talk-request at omnigroup.com wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
>>
>>
>> I was wondering whether this might be due to the fact that I
>> formatted my system as case-sensitive journaled, as opposed to
>> simply journaled.  Also, for the record, I used the disk utility on
>> the DVD to format my drive, rather than the installer itself.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen either of these problems?
>>
>
> So far no problems like that hear.  Does it give you any error?    You
> need to be really careful with case-sensitive fs under OS X.  A lot of
> apps are not aware of that on OS X from what I recall.
>
> --Larry

No errors for me, no.  Just a lack of unmounting and a lack of adding  
to the "Places" area.  Selecting and deselecting sidebar items in the  
Finder prefs, however, works just fine.

I did send in an update to the list--things seem to be working now.   
But it still doesn't /always/ work.  Oy.

As for case-sensitive HFS+, I have definitely had some bad experiences  
with it--Adobe CS2, for instance, fails completely on such as system.   
The game Fallout 2 (granted, it was from 1997, but the Omni Group did  
a really good OS X port) doesn't properly play all of its music  
properly, and crashes more than it probably would otherwise.  And  
there are of course numerous smaller (and larger) examples.

Overall, however, I will say that I've been using case-sensitivity for  
a few years now (and I tend to consider myself an upper-intermediate  
user, for what it's worth) with no truly insurmountable obstacles.   
But your words are a very good warning, and I'm always keeping my eyes  
peeled.

Cheers,
	Andrew