have two Macintosh HD icons on my desktop. One is the log in and current HD and the other has old data from OS 9 that I had installed just to move over data to the new computer at that time. Computer is MacPro mid 2012 3.2 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon with 6GB of Memory running Ma OS 10.12.6 (Sierra, I think).
You can change the name of any Icon on the desktop or anywhere else. It will not cause any problems for the running MacOS.
Macintosh HD is not a 'magical' name. Choose whatever you like.
SadieToo wrote:
have two Macintosh HD icons on my desktop. One is the log in and current HD and the other has old data from OS 9 that I had installed just to move over data to the new computer at that time. Computer is MacPro mid 2012 3.2 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon with 6GB of Memory running Ma OS 10.12.6 (Sierra, I think).
You can just drag the one you don't want to see to the trash can. No harm there.
Like wise you can remove both via Finder Preferences>General> Hard Disk uncheck
OS 9 Applications are from seven versions back. Their Icons (for PowerPC Applications under 10.5.8) are unlikely to be displayed correctly under 10.12.6. The last version able to run PowerPC is 10.5.8, 10.6 was Intel-Only, but had an emulator option.
Your 2102 Mac shipped with 10.7.3 or later. It can not run Applications that old, but there may be current Applications that can read those old data files.
Your data files are likely still there.
Read your reply. Before I started the process to rename, I opened Photos. Had an issue, but finally Photos opened.
Then went to the first Macintosh HD icon and double clicked to open it expecting to see all of my old OS 9
applications. Well, they are now all gone. Went to System Preferences and the selected Macintosh HD icon shows 10.12.6 and the 2nd disk shows 10.5.8. I don't know what happened. Do you? I'm afraid to do anything now.
2 Maintosh HD icons on desktop
