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I've gotten to the point where an Avernum spymaster is sending me on an assassination, so I think this fix is a win. If anyone is using case-sensitive root filesystems in OSX, this seems to get around the issue when mounting other filesystems (virtual in my case) in the tree. -Bill

It's worked so far. I can save/reload games. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

I just fixed this problem for myself. Early Call of Duty games had the case-insensitive issues as well. COD4 is perfectly happy using the right system calls. In at least enough instances to matter, Avernum 6 uses full pathnames of files, not relative pathnames. This means if you have a case-insensitive partition or DMG that you keep the game on, but it is mounted on a case-sensitive filesystem, it still won't work. Here's my specific situation, and how I fixed it. I keep case-sensitive games in a DMG .. call it "Games". It is normally mounted in the filesystem at /Volumes/Games Everything under Games is case-insensitive. The root filesystem is case-sensitive. So, when Avernum 6 tries to access something like /volumes/games/avernum 6 ƒ/avernum 6 files/graphics/g1520.png ...it fails. As far as OSX is concerned, Volumes and Games needs to be capitalized. Everything after that is case-insensitive. So, I have created a directory in the root of my filesystem called "/volumes". OSX knows this is different than the system-default "/Volumes". I create a symbolic link under /volumes called "games". It points to /Volumes/Games. That way, when the program tries the full path, all lower-case, it ends up in the right spot. In a console/shell: mkdir /volumes ln -s /Volumes/Games /volumes/games