After getting my MacBook Pro back from the genius techs (but not so genius retailers) at Tekserve, I was greeted with a stunning failure of Adobe's ability write code: Adobe Creative Suite 3 cannot be installed, run or otherwise used on systems formatted with Journaled, Case Sensitive partitions. Of course, I figure this out AFTER I install EVERYTHING back on my system... so I was looking at wiping the drive, reformatting the boot partition, and then rebuilding the system. Again.

Enter iPartition.

I first ran in to iPartition when I cracked open my Apple TV to drop a larger drive in to it. It's probably the best partition management tool on any OS ever. Full GUI. Complete technical details. And tons of features... I thought that it might be able to help me out of this jam, and I was right.

I fired it up, inspected my boot partition, saw a check box for "Case Sensitive" on my partition details screen. Of course, since I booted the machine with this partition, I could not make changes. I rebooted in to target disk mode, connected to the iMac in the other room, opened iPartition... BLAM!

All is well with the world... and I've gotten my Creative Suite installed.

Oh, and memo to Adobe, you should think about putting a compatibility warning on your retail box.

Tags: iPartition, Adobe, Creative Suite, CS3, HFS+, Coriolis Systems