I am helping a friend trouble shoot a MacBook Pro running Leopard. The name of the Macintosh HD has somehow been changed to a tiny little circle with an "x" it. I think this may have been done accidentally, but I also would like to eliminate the possibility that it indicates some sort of problem. Of course I know how to highlight the icon and select the naming area and just rename it, bit does anyone know if the little circle with the "x" means anything other than someone just accidentally renamed the Macintosh HD somehow? Thanks.
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Macintosh HD Accidentally Renamed--Help
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Yes, that's it, although very small. I've never seen that symbol before so that's why it concerned me.
It's nothing to worry about. Open the character viewer and look at the "Enclosed Letters" section.
Edit Menu, Special Characters
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Just rename your HD back to what it was before just like you rename a regular folder
"This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 575.29 GB but only 515.01 GB are available.
Latest successful backup: Yesterday, 11:30 AM"
Basically after accidentally renaming main HD while cleaning keyboard and naming it back right after...TM now wants to try and backup the entire drive instead of continuing with its incremental backups. I've never had this issue before. It wants to make a complete backup of the whole drive as it stands....as if it's new.