Bringing Cubase LE into the 20th century

Cubase, like Photoshop and many other seemingly professional software packages, refuse to acknowledge that software developers (who you might consider important users) often choose to install their Macs with case-sensitive file systems. Mac OS X has had case sensitive file system options since 10.0 in 2001 included UFS.

Anyhoo, to make Cubase LE work after the installer botches it's attempts, run the following in your terminal:

CUBASE="/Applications/Cubase LE 4.app"

cd "$CUBASE/Contents"
sudo mv components Components
# documentation stays lowercase
# documentation files seem missing - can get them from steinberg website anyway
# fonts must stay lowercase
sudo mkdir -p Help
sudo mv help/* Help
sudo rmdir help
sudo mv presets Presets
sudo mv scripts Scripts
sudo mv Scripts/patchnames Scripts/Patchnames
sudo mv Scripts/trackmixer Scripts/Trackmixer
sudo mv Templates templates/unknown.cpr
# templates dir stays lowercase
sudo mv vstplugins VSTPlugIns


# in case future updates have different casing:
sudo ln -s Components components
sudo ln -s documentation Documentation
sudo ln -s fonts Fonts
sudo ln -s Help help
sudo ln -s Presets presets
sudo ln -s Scripts scripts
sudo ln -s templates Templates
sudo ln -s VSTPlugIns vstplugins

Or I zipped this up in a command file you can double click if you prefer: fix_cubase_case_sensitive.command.zip.