Hard drive renamed itself ???

Broman5 wrote:

I just had a lightbulb go on. Since I did the latest update on the 14th, could it be that all of these applications were "re-created" and modified on 12/2/22 in anticipation of the latest update 13.1 ????

That still does not explain how my hard drive was renamed. But everything seems in order - except for the fact that Apple changed the system PREFERENCES to system SETTINGS, and it's difficult to find and modify some settings that correlate to my previous set up.

Broman

Settings is the new way in Ventura among other changes.

Your output appears normal from the Terminal as you would expect... the name is not changed here.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 1.0 TB disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 307.7 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 8.9 GB disk1s2

3: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.9 GB disk1s2s1

4: APFS Volume Preboot 1.8 GB disk1s3

5: APFS Volume Recovery 1.1 GB disk1s4

6: APFS Volume VM 24.6 KB disk1s5

It would seem a glitch if the desktop Macintosh HD got renamed by the upgrade. I see no foul play unless user error.

I would forget about it or file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here:  http://www.apple.com/feedback 

Change the name back if you care to like any other file, folder, drive on your Mac Desktop.

In reality The MacIntosh HD has no real use on the Desktop taking up valuable real estate.

That would be a simple setting change in the Finder>Settings>General>Hard Disk —uncheck the box.

Broman5 wrote:

Hi. I incidentally just this morning I noticed a "strange" hard drive icon on my desktop named "oiuytrew". (Basically its a run of the middle of the keyboard from right to left). I viewed it in Finder and it's the same location I think where the Macintosh HD

label would be. The applications and other files in the drive were mysteriously created and modified at the same date and time in the middle of the night 3 weeks ago

Let see the output from the Terminal.app copy & paste:

diskutil list internal

ref: Terminal User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

Is this your personal machine or bound to some Enterprise, JAMF, MDM, active directory list (?) work machine.

That letter combination looks like somebody selected the hard drive hit the return key and fell asleep with their fingers on the keyboard, or a cat walk to across it.

Cleaning/wiping/swiping the keys right to left, while the drive was selected/ highlighted— as Barney-15E eludes to above is a good example of user error.

I hadn’t thought of wiping the keyboard angle. I’ll store that one away. The cat walking across the keyboard is real. I think it might be a couple of decades since I read that, here