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Q: Rename Hard drive Lion

New hard drive installed via Apple store to iMac ( MacOS X Lion ) and restored via Time Capsule now start up disk is named "untitled 1", unable to change name via "get info" or desktop or disk tools.

Suggestions please.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on May 24, 2012 11:12 AM

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Q: Rename Hard drive Lion

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  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy May 24, 2012 11:18 AM in response to rblavatt
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    May 24, 2012 11:18 AM in response to rblavatt

    Select the drive. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom is the Ownership & Sharing panel. Take a snapshot of what is displayed and upload it here - COMMAND-SHIFT-4 then select area using crosshairs. Then upload it to a message reply here using the camera icon in the message composition window's toolbar.

     

    Screen Shot 2012-05-24 at 11.17.07 AM.png

     

    Screen Shot 2012-05-24 at 11.16.53 AM.png

     

    You will see something similar to the above.

  • by rblavatt,

    rblavatt rblavatt May 24, 2012 1:09 PM in response to Kappy
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    May 24, 2012 1:09 PM in response to Kappy

    Kappy,

    Thank you and here is the image snapshot.

    Also will this affect Time Capsule in terms of path for back up?

    Screen Shot 2012-05-24 at 1.06.09 PM.png

  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy May 24, 2012 1:13 PM in response to rblavatt
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    May 24, 2012 1:13 PM in response to rblavatt

    Are you operating in an admin or standard user account? Tell me what you are doing to try renaming the drive? The usual method is to select the disk icon and press RETURN which should then activate the name field so you can put in a different name.

  • by rblavatt,

    rblavatt rblavatt May 24, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Kappy
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    May 24, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Kappy

    Admin (as my wife - using her passwords etc).

    I have admin myself but at the time was working on her computer.

    Basically, I have changed the text but comes back as "untitled" when clicking "return".

    I will try again.

  • by rblavatt,

    rblavatt rblavatt May 24, 2012 1:22 PM in response to rblavatt
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    May 24, 2012 1:22 PM in response to rblavatt

    Here is the error code when renaming on desktop (clicking and typing name in).

    Screen Shot 2012-05-24 at 1.18.43 PM.png

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua May 24, 2012 1:29 PM in response to rblavatt
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    May 24, 2012 1:29 PM in response to rblavatt

    Couple of ideas, but see what Kappy thinks about them...

     

    In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)

     

    Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.

     

    Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.

     

    If it does contain data...

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474

     

    10.7.x cant write files...

     

    Reboot up to recovery partition,

     

    Restart holding down Option or alt key+r key

     

    Choose mac utilities, just utilities, choose Terminal.

     

    inside Terminal type this...

     

    resetpassword (no spaces), hit enter, choose, mac hd, select affected account...

     

    Reset home folder permissions and acls.


  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy May 24, 2012 1:32 PM in response to rblavatt
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    May 24, 2012 1:32 PM in response to rblavatt

    OK. Start by trying the following: Open Terminal in the Utilities folder. Paste the following command lines at the Terminal's prompt:

     

    rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

    killall Finder

     

    Press RETURN after each command.

     

    Now try renaming and let me know if this worked.

  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy May 24, 2012 1:33 PM in response to BDAqua
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    May 24, 2012 1:33 PM in response to BDAqua

    BD,

     

    A search on the error produced a possible solution that I have already posted. Let's see if that works since it did for the other poster.

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua May 24, 2012 1:59 PM in response to Kappy
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    May 24, 2012 1:59 PM in response to Kappy

     

  • by rblavatt,Solvedanswer

    rblavatt rblavatt May 24, 2012 2:00 PM in response to Kappy
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    May 24, 2012 2:00 PM in response to Kappy

    Kappy (and others),

    Thank you - The [ rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder/plist killall Finder] did the trick.

    Renamed the hard drive (Macintosh HD) via desktop and it took.

    Found it a bit disconcerting when installing programs etc and it would say "installing into untitled HD" so the world is better now.

    Like mentioned new drive (installed by Apple via Apple store) and full restore via TimeCapsule (when new drive was put in Lion was installed fresh there).

    Everything else seems to be working (occasional re-input a serial number or two) but that is about it.

    I will consider this case closed and thank you again.

    Raymond Blavatt

  • by Kappy,Helpful

    Kappy Kappy May 24, 2012 2:05 PM in response to rblavatt
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    May 24, 2012 2:05 PM in response to rblavatt

    For future reference: The Solved and Helpful awards are for those users who either helped or actually solved the problem.

     

    Glad you got things sorted out.

  • by rblavatt,

    rblavatt rblavatt May 24, 2012 2:11 PM in response to Kappy
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    May 24, 2012 2:11 PM in response to Kappy

    Thank you Kappy and I hope I clicked the correct icon for the "this helped me".

    Wishing best

  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy May 24, 2012 2:18 PM in response to rblavatt
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    May 24, 2012 2:18 PM in response to rblavatt

    Happy you were helped. Thanks for the reward.

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua May 24, 2012 2:20 PM in response to Kappy
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    May 24, 2012 2:20 PM in response to Kappy