Error 'A resource exists with a different case' checking out

Classic Servoy
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I imported a 3.5.9 solution into 4.1.2 developer repository using the dmin page. No error’s there
When doing a checkout in eclips I got the error "cannot checkout, could not write object [projectname] to workspace directory

I looked in the eclips log file which states:
A resource exists with a different case

below a snippet from the log file:

!STACK 1
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ResourceException: A resource exists with a different case: ‘/SM/forms/BudgetLineDetail’.
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.checkDoesNotExist(Resource.java:298)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.checkDoesNotExist(Resource.java:276)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Folder.assertCreateRequirements(Folder.java:29)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Folder.create(Folder.java:88)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Folder.create(Folder.java:118)
at com.servoy.eclipse.core.Ze.mkdirs(Ze.java:78)
at com.servoy.eclipse.core.Ze.Za(Ze.java:104)
at com.servoy.eclipse.core.WorkspaceFileAccess$1.close(WorkspaceFileAccess.java:4)
at com.servoy.j2db.util.Utils.closeOutputStream(Utils.java:320)
at com.servoy.eclipse.core.Ze.Za(Ze.java:16)
at com.servoy.eclipse.core.repository.SolutionSerializer.writePersist(SolutionSerializer.java:32)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.RepositoryOperations.Za(RepositoryOperations.java:659)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.RepositoryOperations.Za(RepositoryOperations.java:273)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.RepositoryOperations.Ze(RepositoryOperations.java:327)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.ServoyTeamProvider.configureProject(ServoyTeamProvider.java:312)
at org.eclipse.team.core.RepositoryProvider.configure(RepositoryProvider.java:334)
at org.eclipse.team.core.RepositoryProvider.map(RepositoryProvider.java:129)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.ServoyTeamProvider.createSolutionProject(ServoyTeamProvider.java:5)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.ServoyTeamProvider.createSolutionProject(ServoyTeamProvider.java:35)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.ServoyTeamProvider.checkoutSelectedSolution(ServoyTeamProvider.java:320)
at com.servoy.eclipse.team.ui.NewSolutionWizard$2.runInWorkspace(NewSolutionWizard.java:7)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.InternalWorkspaceJob.run(InternalWorkspaceJob.java:38)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.core.resources 4 275 2009-05-13 20:58:46.571
!MESSAGE A resource exists with a different case: ‘/SM/forms/BudgetLineDetail’.

!ENTRY com.servoy.eclipse.core 4 0 2009-05-13 20:58:46.574
!MESSAGE writeProjectToDir
!STACK 0
com.servoy.j2db.persistence.RepositoryException: Could not write obj

end of the log states:

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Hi Ron,

In Servoy 4.x object names are case insensistive. So it seems you have 2 forms with the same name but with different cases. Fix that in 3.5 and re-import the solution into the 4.x repository.

Hope this helps.

3

The problem is Windows does not accept files with same name but different case in same parent folder. So, we cannot have this situation in 4.x for forms,elements …

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I’d like to emphasize that this issue is a filesystem constraint and not a Servoy constraint.

On both Mac OS X (when default formatted) and Windows the filesystem is case insensitive so you will get this error. I guess one workaround is to use an external drive that is formatted using a case sensitive format and use that as your workspace.

As far as I know Linux only has case sensitive filesystems so this issue shouldn’t occur there.

5

solved the issue on mac, created a dmg which is case sensitive and than created an eclips workspace in that mounted image. Checkout worked fine there.
This is a filesystem issue and not eclips.

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But do fix this problem… because we will have checks for this to make sure that this cant happen.

So you can use a case sensitive filesystem to check it out but then do fix the actual problem and rename 1 of the 2