Change hard drive name

Will iMovie '11 have a problem if I change the name of my external hard drive? If so, how can I work around this?
Thanks, jan

Good question. iMovie will not be able to find your files, and all your projects will have Yellow Triangles indicating that clips are missing. So don't change the name.
If you do want to change the name, I would recommend that you first move all the Events to another drive, using iMovie to make the move. (To do this, first click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME. Then hold down the Command Key as you drag the small event icon in the Event Library List to the small icon for the Drive in the Event Library List.)
Then change the name of the drive. Once you have changed it, you can move everything back using iMovie.

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Hard Drive name changed on it's own.

Hi there.
On starting my Mac Mini this morning I noticed that the hard drive name had changed from "Mac HD" to "/" without any input from myself.
does anyone have an idea what may have occured ?
Thank's.

Try using GrandPerspective to see what's taking up all the space.
Also, make sure everything you don't need is turned off under Sharing; it's possible that you left file sharing on without a password and someone is taking advantage of that.
If you have a MobileMe account, do you have iDisk Syncing turned on? Or something similar if you have Dropbox or another similar service?

Mac hard drive name

Why is the name of my hard drive \][poiuytrewq`\ ? The symbols seem to be causing a conflict with MAC Office 2011. Has anyone had this issue?

When I attempt to open an Excel file, I get an error message indicating invalid path name...that it contains a symbol like \. I've never updated my hard drive name, unless it happened when my computer was being repaired at Apple. I've only had 2 repairs done to it: the cd drive replaced and a small board that controls the battery charging.
I can change the name of the hard drive to something like MAC_HD_MSilva, but I wanted to make sure this wouldn't cause any issues. From reading posts...the name doesn't seem to matter.

DANGER: Do Not Change Hard Drive Ownership and Permissions

DANGER: Do Not Change Hard Drive Ownership and Permissions (Unless you know what you are doing... I didn't!)
FIRST, THE REPAIR PERMISSIONS SOLUTION:
Use Disk Utilities on the "Sofware Install and Restore" DVD that came with your computer to set the permissions back to the defaults. Not the MacOSX Installation Disk. (This worked in MacOS 10.3.9)
MY SCREW UP
In my Hard Drive's "Get Info" dialog I switched the permissions of the Owner to my username and all others to no access. I had not yet closed the dialog and decided that it was probably dangerous so I started changing them back. I first changed the owner back to system. It asked for authentication.
After entering my password I assumed that I would be able to go back and change the others as well. Nope! The dialog disappeared, my desktop disappeared and I couldn't do anything. I was locked out.
After ten minutes of the beachball I restarted to the "Panther Installation disk" and tried repairing permissioins using disk utility. Evertime it "lost contact" with the system and would not work. Restarting (without CD) took me to a root user login (black sreen). My username and password did nothing.
THE SOLUTION
I then restarted to the "Software Install and Restore" DVD that came with my computer and used its Disk Utility to repair permissions. IT WORKED! It set permissions back to the default. THANK GOD.
NOTE: I wonder, will using the Install and Restore DVD to repair permissions reset any computer's files to the defaults? Is that a backdoor into someones currently restricted files and folders? (Assuming that you have physical access and the computer specific DVD)

Using the Repair Permissions function will not change the permissions on an account's home folder or anything in it, but there are at least two other ways in which someone with a Mac OS X 10.4 installation disk can get access to an account's files or folders unless some or all of those files are encrypted.
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"revert" deleted hard drive name in disk utility HELP!!

I booted my wifes macbook pro 10.4.11 in target mode and connected it to my computer, macbook pro 10.5.6 and went into my disk utility to create a partition in the other computer. I used my disk utility from 10.5.6 because for some reason it got erased from the 10.4.11
so I started to do 2 partitions. It said there was not enough room so I clicked on "revert" and for some reason the name of the "macintosh hd" disappeared and I ejected the computer in target mode. Then when I tried to start it up, it just kept flashing a folder with a question mark. I booted again in target mode but still no "indented" "macintosh hd". it seems like it came unmounted maybe?
I have tried starting from x key, resetting pram, trying to load from install disc (which gets to the point where it asks where to install the OS and no HD shows up to choose) and even taking it to the apple store where they said the HD is damaged and/or corrupt. Before trying to reclaim the files, if I can, I wanted to see if anyone had this same issue and if it was solvable. I cant believe that I hit "revert" and it erased my hard drive name and it automatically made my HD corrupt or damaged?
PLEASE help anyone!
or if this is a lost cause, is there a good file recovery program where I can get my WIFES files back! Yeah, I am in trouble.
Thanks!

If anything can be recovered at all, you should quit using the computer asap. The more you use it the more OSX will write over those spots where the files were.
Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
Or FileSalvage...
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?%20mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
to recover what you can.
BUT, you'll need that other Mac with this one in FW Target Mode
BTW, don't use Leopards Disk Utility to do anything to a Tiger Hard Drive.

I have a macbook pro md318 late 2011 i want to know can i change hard drive from 500GB to 2TB????

i have a macbook pro md318 late 2011 i want to know can i change hard drive from 500GB to 2TB????

Tbh, I really wouldn't bother.
I may get shot down here, but I like having storage centralised, backed up etc, so I would use the internal storage for the day to day stuff, and anything more dated, and large, then dump it on an external, with backup.
I've heard some horror stories about larger capacity drives getting over hot, and failing in some machines. Not macs particularly though.

How can I change the Driver name "Oracle in instantclient_10_2"?

Hello,
ist it possible to change the driver name if i used the instant client? It should be also possible to uninstall the driver, if i changed the name.
Greeting from germany..
Fränky
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Hi,
thank you for your help. It works perferct in my Setup Routine. I think it was the best way to do it like this.
Here my code:
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: APILevel; ValueData: 1; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: ConnectionFunctions; ValueData: YYY; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: CPTimeout; ValueData: 60; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: Driver; ValueData: C:\Programme\MyTool\Driver\SQORA32.dll; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: DriverODBCVer; ValueData: 03.51; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: FileUsage; ValueData: 0; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: Setup; ValueData: C:\Programme\MyTool\Driver\SQORAS32.DLL; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC MyTool; ValueType: string; ValueName: SQLLevel; ValueData: 1; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKLM; Subkey: SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC Drivers; ValueType: string; ValueName: ODBC MyTool; ValueData: Installed
Greetings from germany
Fränky
By the way, I think that i will sleep fine now.

I lost my logic 8 pro serial number. I can't find the booklet that comes with the serial number. How can retrieve this? I upgraded from logic pro 7. I changed hard drives and now it keeps asking for the serial number. But I can't find it. Where can I requ

I lost my logic 8 pro serial number. I can't find the booklet that comes with the serial number. How can retrieve this? I upgraded from logic pro 7. I changed hard drives and now it keeps asking for the serial number. But I can't find it. Where can I request it? Thanks!

If you still have the receipt or other proof of purchase, you can ask Apple to send you the serial. Otherwise, bad luck mate.. Good news is, you can now buy Logic Pro 9 from App Store for just 199 USD

My iMac hard drive name is just backslashes

I have an iMac running OS X 10.9.4

Could be some accident, keyboard commands were chosen & highlighted
the icon of desktop items, and then later, if finder/desktop was clicked or
somehow became the default window, bumping any key could do it.
You can choose desktop items all by keyboard action, + click enter to open
in some instances. There are several shortcuts going way back to early
Mac OS that still do things. Not necessarily the same things in OS X.
Cycling through several items on the desktop by up/down is then possible;
if you happen across the correct keys, even by accident.
{Kids are almost famous for choosing Accessibility preferences; such as
those to turn the desktop into a chalkboard negative effect}
Not sure if you can lock a hard drive name (as you can an application)
in the case of my Macs hard drives, the shorter name in-icon uses HD
or HDD to avoid longer name issues.
I've had a few dozen/dozen Macs and some of these kinds of things are
not so new to me. On rarer occasion, a few others can still be strange...
Good luck & happy computing!
edited

Applescript for recognizing hard drive names (Chronosync)

I'm looking for a reliable, flexible and "idiot proof" backup system and am currently considering Chronosync for the job.
By "idiot proofing" the system I basically mean that the setup should keep track of source/destination drives in a multiple drive setup (I have a 4-bay Firewire enclosure and several removable hard drives each with a unique name) so I don't risk backing up to the wrong drives etc.
I've asked customer support at Chronosync if their software can detect hard drive names and was told it can't, but I could create an AppleScript that would prompt me to connect a drive, and set that as a pre-sync script in the Options Panel of ChronoSync, in the Scripts section.
Unfortunately I don't know much about Chronosync, nor do I have any knowledge of Applescripting. Does anyone here know of a readily available solution or have other suggestions?

I gave that script a short test... should work. =)
Remember to check (cancel on script error) because the script creates an error when you select "Cancel Backup" in it's dialogs:
-- 24.05.2011 hubionmac.com
-- can be added as as a pref-sync script to a ChronoSync-Job to ask the user
-- to connect a missing source/destination volume if needed
--https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3075920
tell application "ChronoSync"
set mysource to leftTargetPath of document 1
set mydesti to rightTargetPath of document 1
if mysource starts with "/Volumes/" then
set mydelimiter to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set sourceName to text item 3 of mysource
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mydelimiter
else
tell application "Finder" to set sourceName to name of startup disk
end if
if mydesti starts with "/Volumes/" then
set mydelimiter to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set destiName to text item 3 of mydesti
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mydelimiter
else
tell application "Finder" to set destiName to name of startup disk
end if
tell application "Finder" to set drivenames to name of every disk
set cancelbackup to false
if sourceName is not in drivenames then
repeat until 1 = 0
set myaction to button returned of (display dialog "Source disk (" & sourceName & ") is not mountet!" buttons {"Check again!", "Cancel Backup"} default button 1 giving up after 30)
if myaction = "Check again!" then
tell application "Finder" to set drivenames to name of every disk
if sourceName is in drivenames then
exit repeat
end if
else
set cancelbackup to true
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
if cancelbackup is false then
if destiName is not in drivenames then
repeat until 1 = 0
set myaction to button returned of (display dialog "Destination disk (" & destiName & ") is not mountet!" buttons {"Check again!", "Cancel Backup"} default button 1 giving up after 30)
if myaction = "Check again!" then
tell application "Finder" to set drivenames to name of every disk
if destiName is in drivenames then
exit repeat
end if
else
set cancelbackup to true
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
end if
if cancelbackup is true then error "Canceling"
end tell

Changed hard drive successfully, but still have a question.

I just replaced the internal hard drive in my Intel Mac Mini with a new 250G 2.5 inch SATA drive (Seagate Momentus). The original hard drive had died, after showing symptoms of illness for a while. The operation was a success, and everything is working fine, but the way I did it, it wouldn't have been possible without a second Mac, as described below. So I'm wondering if I'm missing some basic concept here. Seems like I should have been able to do it with just the install DVDs.
I was following an instructional video at this site, http://tinyurl.com/2fow2q, which had been recommended to me in an earlier thread of mine. That made the physical part of replacing the drive easy enough. When I went to boot up, though, with the DVD in the drive, it wouldn't recognize that there was any hard drive in the computer at all.
I assumed that I had broken something when I had the computer open. In desperation, I took a fairly new, almost unused firewire external drive that I had, and used my MacBook to set it up as a bootable drive. Then I connected it to the Mini, turned it on again, and was able to install OS X on the external drive. With the Mini working again, I used Disk Utility to look at the drives, and discovered that it did see the internal one, it just didn't know what format it was in. So I partitioned it as a bootable drive, turned off the Mini, disconnected the external drive, and booted it up again with the DVD. This time it saw the drive, and I was able to install OS X to it.
It has occurred to me that maybe I could have skipped a step by hooking the Mini up to my MacBook, booted it up in target mode, and then have used the MacBook's Disk Utility to partition the drive. But I didn't think of this at the time, and I was just assuming that I had physically broken something inside the Mini.
What I would like to know is if there was any way to do this without my second Mac. I had naively assumed that the DVD would allow the Mini to detect the drive, and just partition it properly before starting the rest of the install. I had bought the drive from Tiger Direct, and was sure that it wouldn't come properly formatted, but I thought the install would take care of that.
If I had bought from a dealer that specializes in Macs, like the one I linked to above, could I assume that the drive would have arrived already formatted for OS X? I notice that their advertising doesn't specifically say this. Are there other partitioning tools that would have allowed me to set up the drive without having another computer handy, say some other CD or DVD? I remember changing hard drives back when I used Windows, and getting a bootable CD which would partition the drive before you installed the OS, but nothing like that came with this one.
Any advice welcome. As things turned out, I found a solution, but it became obvious that I hadn't known everything I needed to ahead of time.

if you were to get hold of a hard disk caddie (carrier) such as:
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-5-SATA-HDD-Hard-Drive-External-Enclosure-Caddy-1K_W0QQ itemZ220335852761QQcmdZViewItem
then your mac would just see it as an external drive and you would be able to reformat/partition it as you see fit.

Have a MBP mid 2009, had mavericks, changed hard drive and now have 10.6.8 and can't update to mavericks again. Any help?

Hi,
I Have a MBP mid 2009, 8 Gb RAM, had mavericks, changed hard drive to get more space (500Gb) and couldn't restart from time machine so had to install Snow Leopard, now have OS 10.6.8 and can't update to mavericks again. Any help?

You did not contact us. This is just a user to user forum where we try to help each other out. No one here works for Apple and as far as we know Apple do not even come here. Ring back the number you originally called on and ask for an explanation.
Cheers
Pete

I think leopard changed my external hard drive name

Path in 10.4.10 was /Volumes/LaCie 1/wow movies/
Path in Leopard is /Volumes/LaCie 1/wow movies/
Dunno how the extra space-1 got in there. Nothing changed but the upgrade to leopard.
Is this normal or what?? Might explain some weird external hard drive problems.
MBP July 07
Firewire 800 160GB Lacie external hard drive

I don't see an extra space. In any case this is the Tiger forum area and perhaps your query would be better placed in the leopard forum area.

Problem with hard drive name

A friend of mine was having problems saving documents. She somehow wound up with her boot disk being named "\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\". I'm guessing it was renamed that by accident. I suggested deleting all of the slashes and changing the name of the drive back to Macintosh HD, but she says every time she does that, it reverts to all slashes.
Any ideas?

What kind of problem? What does the message say verbatim? Run the drive test within the BIOS setup (F10 as you power on) and see what it says. Likely you need a new hard drive. They are not too expensive and if you replace it while the old drive is functioning it is fairly easy to just clone the old disk to the new. If you wait until the old one is dead it becomes a much tougher proposition.

Changed hard drive

I'm hoping somebody can help me out.
I just changed my hard drive, I have no boot disc but I do have a backup of the recovery drive on a USB. Is there any chance that I can create a boot disc from any of the files on the USB?
I tried it last night but nothing worked, does anybody have any idea how I might be able to make this work??
Thanks.

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That depends on what you mean by "backup" and how it was created. When you first setup your computer, you should have created your personal HP Recovery Media. This media would have returned your computer to a factory like state.
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