Uppercase drive format required!

[bargbill]

I just purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021.
I am running Big Sur 11.2.3

I can down the disk image for installation.
When I click on the photoshop installer I get a threat warning that this installer will on install the installation files to an uppercase formatted drive.
OK so I can reformat an external drive to uppercase choice.
But the apple drive utility does not show.... UPPERCASE, FAT, EXFAT, only versions of APFS.

 

[Lufbrarunner]

You probably need one of the 'Case Sensitive' options i.e. APFS (case sensitive)

 

[bargbill]

Big Sur Disk utility does not have those format choices.

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello,

Did you purchase Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 directly from Adobe? If not, where?

C

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hi,

From Adobe's website: Adobe Photoshop Elements 20201 - System Requirements

"cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices"

C

 

[bargbill]

directly on line about 2 weeks ago
Big Sur does not have uppercase on formatting option or Journaling.

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hi,

Correct, APFS uses other data security features that are different than the journaling in HFS+. However, you can actually format in Big Sur using APFS (Case-sensitive)

If your drive is formatted that way, that would prevent the Adobe installer from working, as it states it cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system. If you did standard APFS, that isn't case-sensitive, and the Adobe installer should work.

Can you upload a screenshot of the error you are getting with the Adobe installer?

C

 

[bargbill]

Thank you for your help.
All is well now!
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I am using TIME MACHINE for complete backups.
I do trust it for all backups.
Big Sur disk utility does not appear to have upper car only format, I tried all four,
However if you add a partition many other formats are included.
So I made a partition that is almost all of the drive, and went down the list.

Start in apple recovery mode "command R"..... erased the startup drive and made a partition for 95% of the drive ,,, then reinstalled Big Sur and all worked.
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I cannot send the stupid Adobe warning screen about requiring uppercase format,
It is not there anymore and the installation went smoothly.

Thanks again