Opening and moving .inprogress files?

[bsneezy09]

Hey, I'm a newbie to the MacRumors forum!

I did a time machine backup for my Macbook Pro in December and for some reason it didn't fully backup and the Macbook's hd didn't remount, causing it to crash. When I did a show package information, all of my documents and programs were saved. However, whenever I try to move the documents I receive a "incorrect case sensitivity" message.

I want to use the files that were backed up and transfer them to my computer. Is there a way that I can do this? How do I get rid of the "incorrect case sensitivity" message?

 

[cxc]

anybody please can help with this.
I lost everything I created in 4 yrs just yesterday to such a tm error.

Thank you!

 

[Makosuke]

Just to check the most obvious possible cause, was the drive actually formatted as "Case Sensitive" either before or after the crash? If you changed the case sensitivity I assume it could cause such an error, although it's also possible that some unrelated issue generates this error incorrectly.

When you're first formatting a drive, there's a little popup that defaults to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"; if you selected "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)" from the popup, that would have done it. This is, incidentally, a bad idea unless you really know what you're doing and why you'd want a case-sensitive filesystem.