Change volume name

I need some help;
I want to change the volume name but don´t know how to?

If you want to change the name of a volume, such as that for a hard drive or a partitio to one, you do it exactly the same way as changing thee name of a file. Click the volume's icon once to select it, then press the Return key; this will put the volume's filename into edit mode. Type in the ne name, then press return again.
Note 1 - if you're referring to a CD or similar volume, one which is locked or otherwise can not be written to, you can not change its name.
Note 2 - if you're using File Sharing on a network, changing the name of a volume will interfere with access between machines.

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OK to change Volume name in Finder?

(First: Please correct me if I'm referring wrongly to "Volume." From the image I do know the DEVICE is "Chuck Mtn Lion MBP." I intend to refer to the name that appears in the Finder, the one that typically starts as "Macintosh HD.")
Simple question: Is renaming the volume as simple and safe as it appears evidently in the image? Just like renaming a document?
Context, if necessary:
My new MBP 13" was stolen. Fortunately, I'd already made a fully bootable 1TB backup, so I just installed it into my old ('08) MBP 15". It works perfectly. BUT its name shows up as "OWC 1TB MBP13"—the sort of name I give to my external bootables. I'd much rather have the Volume named something like MACPRO.
I haven't yet reestablished my backup regimen in Carbon Copy; I do understand that changing this name would undo all those tasks, so I want to get this name right BEFORE creating them anew. Does this bring up anything else I need to consider?
Thanks.

Hmmm—I spoke too soon. Task not completed. Unexpected error -8076. Not finding anything specific on that one.

Effect on symbolic link when changing volume name

I just wanted to verify this information before I proceed with changing the name of my hard drive. I have 3 partitions of my MBP's internal drive. There is the system partition "Mac HD", a boot camp partition and a data only partition called "Storage". I have quite a few symbolic links on "Mac HD" which point to "Storage", where the data is stored. If I change the name of "Mac HD" and/or "Storage", will the symbolic links update to the new name of the volume automatically? Or, will the change of volume name break the symbolic links so I have to create them all over again? Everything I have read leads me to believe they will update, but I don't want to mess anything up and find out the hard way. A little confirmation would make me feel much better before I make the change.
Thanks,
sterling

etresoft wrote:
I don't want to get off on a tangent about pros and cons of cloning, I just want to plant a seed of worry to review it at a later date. It is one thing to restore a disk image for a kiosk machine, it is something else entirely to restore an image of some machine that has had people using it. Misconfiguration, corrupt filesystems, and failed hard drives are some of the most frequent causes of failures. Having a clone of a system that has just failed for one of those reasons doesn't give me a warm fuzzy. It would be a much better idea to have a procedure (or script) to build a new server from scratch and load it from a backup (not a bitwise clone) of known, good data.
Our computer use is typical. There are only a few employees who use the computers regularly, and a few people others who use it less often. the daily use is mostly for back end management like bookkeeping and processing orders. The rest of the operations are design based, like graphics and documents. We don't have a business like a kiosk where people are all over the computers all day. With deep freeze on the system though, there is no worry about anyone doing anything to the system that would corrupt it. Also, the actual drives with the OS rarely get changed or backed up, because they remain the same for the most part. All of the files that are created like documents, designs, orders and such, are saved to storage. The storage is what I back up frequently, because that's where everything is stored. I may have a false sense of security, but I always thought I was more protected than most, because all of my files are stored on a drive without any operating system. I figured there is very little that can go wrong which could corrupt my data since the drive is data only. I always have 2 backups up both the OS drive and the data storage drive. One is like a daily backup, the other is more like once a week or so update which is kept in the safe. I always verify that the backup by opening a few files on it, but I never really know for sure that everything is safe because I can't open everything! I have no clue how to start a server based system backup like you are talking about, but it sounds like a much safer backup method. A little overkill for use considering we don't do that much on the computers? Maybe, but only because I would have to hire someone to come set it up for me. Maybe it's not so hard as it sounds, but I know I don't have the time to learn how to do something like that myself. I didn't realize the backup techniques I am using are so inferior. I feel like my data is pretty safe, but I guess I can look into other options.
I don't consider it "fun", I consider it a "requirement".
I am a bit of a prepper, okay a lot of a prepper. I am prepared for just about anything that can come my way. I do not consider testing my preps fun either. I was just saying, I anticipate that there will be some sort of loss when I restore, based on what you're telling me.
Disasters do have a remarkable ability to strike when you are least prepared. There is a logical reason for that. The more prepared you are, the less disastrous the event.
Agreed, 100%. That's why we're talking about it. I was starting to think that I was over thinking it! Clearly I'm not the only one!
Interesting. Unfortunately, the symbolic link method is pretty invasive because it requires those links to be up and functioning before the clone. A better solution would be to identify all those files, and have a launchd script that replaces the original files with either modified versions or links at system boot time.
With deep freeze, the symlinks are re-created every time I boot, even if they are broken before shutdown. So, it's pretty safe as long as they work before I freeze the system. I also have the two backups in case something goes wrong. I'm confident the links work. And the worst thing that can go wrong if they break is that I have to re-create the broken ones. either way, the data that is linked is still on my storage drive and both of my backups. The only thing I wouldn't be able to recover would be the symbolic link itself.
You need to think of this in terms of the file system. The "name" of a volume doesn't really mean anything. What matters is the mount point. The mount point, however, depends on a particular hardware configuration. You could control it better with some clever mounting scripts, but it sure seems like there is a much easier way to accomplish your ultimate goal.
I guess you're saying I could get by without deep freeze, and that it complicated things. Yes, it does. I am always trying to find workarounds because of it. However, I like the fact that my computer is the same every time I turn it on no matter what someone has done to it.
You have extensive control over your mount points.
I will have to look into this, because if I can get the firewire clone to run with the symlinks in place, I could have a fully working system with nothing more than a restart of the computer.
That, I don't know. Restoring a disk image that has embedded symbolic links to another drive is a fragile solution. You know what files you need to symlink, write a script that will set up the links at boot time - or at any time. Exactly what files are these? I strongly think there is an even easier solution lurking around. Why are you so concerned about retaining user data through restarts? Why are you even restarting?
There's actually not as many as I thought. I have symlinked data and prefs from mail, ical, address book, blackberry desktop. Then, some document folders. I could cut a lot of these down by linking my entire documents folder and building my hierarchy within that, but I've built my own which is neatly organized into the 4 departments of our business. It's really not that much. The only thing is that my mail, ical and address book won't work on the clone, because they are dependent on the simlinks. Everything else is just files that I would access directly from the storage drive anyway, so no loss there!
Wow! I made it through here! I'll review over the ideas you recommended and see if I can actually implement any of them myself. My guess is, I don't have the skills to pull them off. I'll look into it though. thanks for your time, and I will let you know what happens.

IPhoto can't find original photos after volume name change

I had to reformat my drive and do a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I was pleased that the Migration Assistant imported all the user accounts, apps, etc. from a Time Machine backup. Never could have done *that* with Windows...
However, in iPhoto, I *do not* copy pictures from my Pictures folder into the iPhoto library and iPhoto can't find them. I expect that this is because I changed the volume name when I reformatted the drive, which is embedded somewhere in the iPhoto package in my Pictures folder.
Does anyone know which iPhoto files I can edit or batch edit to change references from the old volume name to the new one? Is this information stored in text or XML files that I can edit or is it embedded in binary files? I thought I might be able to reimport the photos from the current volume and iPhoto would sort out the duplicates (not a great option if I get prompted for each one though...) but I wasn't sure if that would preserver events, faces, etc.
When I try to rebuild the iPhoto library, I get a dialog indicating each file cannot be found on the volume. While it provides an option to browse for the location, this isn't practical due to the 1000's of photos and movies on the drive.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

As OT says, the primary reason not to run a Referenced Library, and, most especially, not one where you have the Library on one Volume and the photos on another.
You're going to have this problem again and again any time you make a change to your hardware set up - including upgrading your machine and so on.
Going forward: Do you have Aperture? This has a command to Locate Referenced Masters which should help. Other than that, how are you at hacking SQL databases? That's what this guy did:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3216539?tstart=30
back up first...
Regards
TD

Unable to unshare a share point due to forced drive (volume) name change.

I just upgraded a single CPU G4 Xserve from 10.3.9 to 10.5.2. I have run into a bug that I found discussed in another thread here; the bug that two drives on the server cannot have very similar names or it leads to the File Sharing pane in Server admin being unable to access and control the permissions of that drive. I had two drives, Poseidon I (boot drive) and in the second slot, Poseidon II. I have a sharepoint called Prepressfiles inside Poseidon II. After the upgrade I could not access the volumes permissions due to the aforementioned bug (the thread I just responded to should come up right under this posting). Well, once I changed the name (to PPFiles) I could then access the volume as well as being able to rehare the sharepoint, however it automatically renamed it Prepressfiles (1) which means I would have to go and change a lot of things elsewhere, obviously. Well, I can't delete the old sharepoint which is why the new one has the (1) in the name added automatically, because that volume doesn't exist anymore, and if I change the name back, I can't deleted the sharepoint either because of the naming bug!!!
How can I manually delete this sharepoint from the Server Admin, as that seems the only way I can at this point. I need to be able to rename the drive as I did and then reshare the sharepoint as plain old 'Prepressfiles'.
MANY THANKS!!!!

Hi Abiebelcap,
Based on your description, my understanding is that you have configured a new URL for the newly created web application in Configure alternate access mapping in Central Administration.
If that is the case, please make sure that the two things below have been done:
1. Make sure that the host header used in the new URL have been added in the DNS server and it points to the IP address of the server where the web application runs.
For example, I used the host header called test:
2. Make sure that binding for the new URL is added to the web application in Internet Information Services(IIS).
Open IIS, right click the site of the newly created web application and select Edit bindings.
After that, you can access the site collections inside the new web application from the new URL.
More reference:
http://blog.blksthl.com/2012/12/03/a-guide-to-alternate-access-mappings-basics-in-sharepoint-2013/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint_strategery/archive/2013/05/27/alternate-access-mappings-explained.aspx
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Why OS X Yosemite change primary volume name (core storage)

Hi to everyone,
I have several Macs. I like to make fresh installs. My experience tell me that fresh installs makes everything work better.
On my iMac, making the fresh install of OS X Yosemite don't change primary volume name (has a not HDD fusion). O my macbook pro retina (late 2013) OS X Yosemite change the primary volume name and equal to the partition name, that is, change it to a core storage disk. I could understand if it was a fusion disk, but in this case it is just an SSD of 256 GB. It is a bug of OS X Yosemite installer? If this shouldn't happen, anyone could tell how can I solve that, that is, make a fresh install on my macbook pro retina without change the primary volume name.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.

Safe boot your computer.
Turn off computer. Hold shift key. Turn on computer. Keep holding shift. Once progress bar starts moving let go. If you can then login and use your computer it is not the OS it is some other application installed on the computer that is causing the issue.

Can I change TimeMachine volume name for local snapshots?

Hi all,
I had a problem with my hard drive and after restoring the volume, where TimeMachine stores local snapshots, has a strange name (some autogenerated text). Is it possible to specify the volume name explicitly?
Thank you
Regards
Marcel

I think so, just as you can change any volume name.
CLick on the title and type in the box to have a new name. You may have to reelect that volume using TM's preference pane.
Jay

How do I change the name of my Mac partition in the startup menu?

Hi,
So when I transferred my data to my new hard drive, I originally called my hard drive "changetitle" so I wouldn't confuse it with my other drive also named Macintosh HD.
Now that I have my new drive installed, I changed the name to "Macintosh HD" but when I hold Option to use bootcamp on startup, I notice that my HFS+ partition still has the name "changetitle".
Any way to change it? Thanks!

System Preferences->Sharing sets the network name of the computer. The issue here is the name of the startup volume as seen in Startup manager (the option key start up mode).
That should be changeable from the Finder: highlight the name of the volume, press return, & type in the new name. Is this what was done?

"A Bad Filename or volume name encountered" ?!!!

I searched but I didnt find an answer for this problem. I get the message "Bad Filename or volume name encountered" when I try to play a video file with Quicktime. When I try to add it to my playlist on iTunes it doesnt add it. All of this happened after I converted the file to a Quicktime format (.mov). Also I tried to convert it to iPod video format (.mp4) and the same thing happened. I actually converted some other files to those two formats and they worked. I changed the video size and frame rate and the audio bit rate , sample rate, channel around to match the iPod requirements but it still didnt work. Does anyone know what I should do?!
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actuially providing as much detail is best to get an answer. Like what are you missing? Where did you get this video from? what did you use to convert the video? Did you follow the instrucitons to convert the video to a .mov format and then to a .mp4 format? You see as much information is best to get an educated answer. Since your new here you didnt know that so your ok. And you did something MANY people dont seem to do and thats actually search b4 you posted.
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Why is a number appended to the volume name on external hard drive, only in path?

Last week I replaced a failing external drive. Using Disk Utility I partitioned it into two volumes, named them CCC and Warehouse (Warehouse is the problem). I had never had any volumes named Warehouse previously. In Finder the name shows correctly, until I click "Get Info", where the name is shown as Warehouse 1. All of the files on Warehouse show their paths as /Volumes/Warehouse 1. I don't know when the " 1" was appended to the name, or how it happened. It's screwing up my applications that write to or from the volume, the path is wrong. When I'm in Warehouse's "Get Info" I try to change the name back to Warehouse, but it immediately goes back to Warehouse 1. I copied everything off the drive, repartioned using the same names, and still have the problem. I notice if I change the name to something totally different, like "Fish", I don't get that problem. I would prefer to keep the name Warehouse though, if possible.

I have noticed that the system can "hold onto" a drive name when there's a disconnect from the external volume.
Try this. Eject your external drive. Go into Terminal, and type
Cd /Volumes
Do you see a phantom "Warehouse" volume still there? If so, navigate into it, make sure there are no files you might want to keep (copy them elsewhere if so), then navigate out and use
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Warehouse
See if that fixes it.
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Music files moved to a new network drive with a new volume name

I had to replace my old network attached harddisk which held all my music ( mainly mp3 ) files. This drive was automounted and had the name "MUSICHD". My new network attached storage device ( LACIE Ethernet Disk mini 500GB ) has the volume name "SHARE" and it's not possible to change it.
I copied all the files onto the the new drive, but now I have to tell iTunes that the files are not longer on a volume called MUSICHD. Could somebody be so kind and give me an advice how to do it. Shure I could re-import all the music files, but I don't like to loose all my ratings, playlists, etc.
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PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) iPod 5G

to be precise. I don't let iTunes manage my files. All my mp3 files are on a NAS ( Network Attached Storage ) device ( it's a 300 GB Harddisk with a 1GBit network connection from Buffalow ).
If I add mp3 files to my library I first copy it to the NAS device and than drag and drop the files to the iTunes library. So iTunes only manages the links to that files. Files are not imported or copied to/with iTunes.
Now I have to replace that NAS device by another one. Due to this replacement I have to change the network volume-name of the device. This share is part of the link in the iTunes database for each file.
If you look into the xml file you'll find something like this:
<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/Volumes/SHARE/MUSIK/Blues/Dupree,%20Champion%20Jack/Blues%20From%20the%20Gutter/Dupree,%20Cha mpion%20Jack%20-%20Blues%20From%20the%20Gutter%20-%2001%20-%20Strollin'.mp3</str ing>
So the "simple" question is. How to tell iTunes that all my music files are now on another volume?
-Wolfgang

How to change the name of a clone?

I cloned in order to upgrade to Tiger.
How do I change the name of the clone?
I was told this: change the computer's name from the Sharing pane of System Preferences.
I went into the hard drive with the clone, opened system folder>library>preferencepane folder, clicked on sharingpref.pref pane and got a message saying "you cannot install the preferences pane folder because it already exists"
What stupid thing have I done?
Thanks!

geo3
What stupid thing have I done?Probably nothing, but what exactly do you want to rename? The "clone", which is a disk volume, or the "computer name"? And if the latter, why?
I have several volumes which are "clones" and they are named "OSX48", "OSX39" etc so I know which is which (my main system boot volume is just plain "OSX_4"). But at no time did I need to change my computer's name.
You change the volume name the same way you change a folder or file name: click on the name until it becomes an editable box, and type your new name.

How do you change the name of macbook pro

How do you change the name of the MacBook Pro (not with Retina Display) ????
David

Note that some less-than-stellar applications may barf at the change, even though EVERYONE knows the name of a computer is not an authentication mechanism.
On the same vein, if you change the name of the startup volume (aka Macintosh HD) after having put stuff there, even more poorly designed apps may barf.
Just so you know and aren't caught by surprise.

Help. I accidentally formatted by the device name not the volume name when trying fresh install osx Mountain lion.

I was trying to do a fresh instal of Mountain Lion. By fresh I mean clean.
Firstly, my iMac disc drive isn't really working to well, so I have Mountain Lion on a usb.
I started up and held the option key.
Entered into disc utility mode, and started doing everything correct.
Then near at the end I when i'm required to select a start up disc it doesnt show anything... Help?
I checked around online and saw this tutorially and notice I had done something different.
http://macs.about.com/od/MountainLion/ss/How-To-Perform-A-Clean-Install-Of-Os-X- Mountain-Lion-On-A-Startup-Drive.htm
on page 2. where it says
When Disk Utility opens, select your Mac's startup volume from the list of devices. If you never changed its name, the startup volume will be listed as Macintosh HD. Be sure to select the volume name and not the device name, which will usually be the name of the physical drive, for instance, "500 GB WDC WD5."
I think I may have selected the device name. Is this the cause of my problem?
Can I fix this ? Please help?
I live in Auckland in New Zealand, I don't have any apple stores here

Ok, I realized that won't work, I don't think, because you can't enable it on your Mac.
However, if you have another Mac, you can use Firewire Target Disk Mode to install. Boot your Mac while holding down the T key. You will see a FireWire symbol on the screen. Then, connect the two with a Firewire cable. Your Mac hard drive will show up on the other. Try to install onto that.
This may not work, depending on the other Mac. If it is similar to yours, it should.
I'm not sure if you can do it the other way. If you put the DVD into the other Mac and boot it into Target Disk Mode, then boot yours holding down the option key, you may be able to select the DVD on the other Mac as the startup.
This very old article seems to indicate it will work: http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0914.html
Remote Disc Instructions:
Here is Apple's info: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287
Here is now to enable seeing the Remote Disc on your Mac: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2009012605560521

Volume name of File path / getAbsolutePath, this is driving me insane

Hello,
i spent another several hours on this issue i'm having and i think i'm going nuts :=)
so heres the problem:
System: Mac OS, two partitions "Mac" and "DATA"
i have a file "file1.ogg" on the "main" partition (where Mac OS x resides) in the directory tecxx/Music/file1.ogg
i have a file "file2.ogg" on my NTFS data partition, in the subfolder /DJMUSIC/file2.ogg
so far, so good.
when i process these 2 files in my application with a File object and the method "getAbsolutePath()" i get:
1) /Users/tecx/Music/file1.ogg
2) /Volumes/DATA/DJMUSIC/file2.ogg
note that path 1 does not contain any volume name at all, while path 2 contains not just the volume name, but "/Volumes/" in front of the path.
allright, now here comes the problem. i have another application which uses these 2 files (a dj software). it spits out the filenames of these two tracks in an xml file with these path names:
1) /Mac/Users/tecxx/Music/file1.ogg
2) /Data/DJMUSIC/file2.ogg
Note that this application adds the Volume name to both paths, but NOT /Volumes/.
what i need to do now is match the filenames against each other. when i process the xml file of the dj app, i extract the filepath, and need to find it in my internal database of my application. but how do i do that, if java returns such strange names, one time without any volume-identifier at all, and the other time with a volume-identifier AND "/Volumes" as a prefx ?
seriously, this is bugging me for over a week now and i spent the entire day trying to fix this (manually adding "/Volumes/" to the paths, trying different combinations of getAbsolutePath, getCanonicalPath, toURL.toExternalForm; etc,etc), but isn't there an easy solution to get the volume name AND path name of a file somehow?
in short, i'd like to have a function always return something like this:
// returns /Mac/somedirectory/somename.ext
// or        /Data/otherdirectory/someothername.ext
String getFullPathName(File f)
    return f.getVolumeName() + f.getAbsolutePath();
}but how do i do the first part (getVolumeName)?
please help or i will kill myself (just kidding :)
cheers,
robert
Edited by: tecxxtc on May 9, 2008 10:24 AM
Edited by: tecxxtc on May 9, 2008 10:24 AM

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What program is generating the XML file? What operating system is the third-party software running on?
I only ask because in my opinion, you should just be working with the absolute pathname, and clearly the third-party app is not doing that.
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traktor dj studio, latest version. it runs either on windows or mac os x. in my case, i run it on windows, but many of my app users run it on mac os x.
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What is the purpose of this application? Is it a script that you're only trying to use on your computer, with your current configuration? Are you trying to distribute it?
>
my app has the purpose of managing the song database for traktor dj studio (if you want to take a look.. here's the webpage: http://rrs.at/trakker/ )
yes, i'm distributing it.
>
However, if this is just a script that you want to hack up for yourself, just do some string manipulation on your absolute paths:
String file = myFile.getAbsolutePath();
if ( file.startsWith("/Volumes/") {
   //replace "/Volumes" with empty string
} else {
   //prefix "/Mac"
}so, this is where i've come to myself. the first part - adding "/volumes/" works fine. but the second part will fail - as i don't know the volume name of the boot partitions of my users. it is not necessarily "/Mac" - thats only true on my own machine :)
do have a nice idea for me how to solve that?
i thought about creating a "new File" object for the path i'm reading from the xml, and then iterating my entire "database" of files, creating another "new File" object for each one, and comparing them with "equals". that might work, but that would mean, that for every path in the xml file (up to 2000 or more) i would have to compare to every path in my database (again, up to 2000 or maybe many more). i don't even want to calculate how many cpu calls this will generate... the hashtable lookup would just be way faster, if i could get the paths right.
anyway, thanks for all the replies yet, you're really helpful. i'm aware of the filepath differences between windows and mac, and thanks again for your thorough explanations, but as i can't change the behaviour of this third party app i'm stuck with a solution here (and my mac os experience is near zero, but it is starting to get better ;=)

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