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Renaming "Macintosh HD"
- Thread starter WillJS
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Yep, you can rename it right on the desktop without any problem at all.
As for the
keystroke, try alt-shift-k.
As for the
keystroke, try alt-shift-k.
Alternately, you can click once on the HD icon on the desktop so that the HD is highlighted, and hit the Return key and you will then be able to edit the name of the HD.
Apple really need to stop you renaming the home folder, I wouldn't let that kind of bug stay in my program, let alone an entire OS.
No, everything continues to work fine if you change the hard drive name. Don't know about the user folder. You can change the name, but not the short name. Doesn't cause any problems that I've ever seen. This isn't Windows.
TBH I would avoid exotic characters and stick to a-Z & 0-9. You never know when an exotic character in a pathname will become a pain in the ass.
You might need to type in your HD name in Terminal or some other application will have an issue with it.
You might need to type in your HD name in Terminal or some other application will have an issue with it.
True dat. I don't really find the BSD guts of OS X to be quite as Unicode friendly as I'd hope anyway...
For your system drive, though, you're probably fine.
Awesome. Thanks guys!
That's really cool!
I named mine batman, and labeled it yellow... and then named my red iPod robin, and labeled it red...
*runs out of topic*
There's a thread about this somewhere. People renaming their hard drives to weird things. Mine was Deus, with Tempus being a backup, and Manus for docs. My new one is just named InteliMac for now, my MBP is MacBook, and my backup is named Backup. I'll have to fix that someday.