File System case sensitivity problem

Unity Engine
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Hello,

I’m running unity 2017.1.0xf3Linux (amd64) in debian with an ext4 file system.

I have tracked an error causing unity to be unable to list projects on disk and unable to open projects when you have base folder with different character case.

Example:

I have my unity projects in /home/brunoramos/code

Everything work ok.

If I create /home/brunoramos/Code (with an upper case C) unity will no longer find the projects.
Trying to manually Open a project browsing to /home/brunoramos/code/myproject will also not work, and will make unity complain about window layout issues misleading the user.

If I delete /home/brunoramos/Code everything stars working again.

I think somewhere in unity’s internals there is a problem with the way characters case is managed.

Please let me know if you need more details, or if you cannot reproduce the problem.

Regards,

Bruno

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Unity has also problems with file cases in other places.

When starting Unity installed in /mnt/Data/apps/Unity, it failed when copying certificate from my other disk /mnt/data where the folder apps/Unity is not present

I also had problems with installer trying to select the proper installation folder as it kept disappearing (being deleted) from disk when I selected it in installer window. Probably because of the same reason, as I had to remount the disk into different location first to make installation work.

I also can’t report this issue within Unity, as Unity freezes and crashes every time I try to do it.

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Thanks for reporting this. I’ve filed a bug and we’ll get to this when we can.