Hard drive name

Hello all,
The name of my in-laws Macintosh HD has been changed to "test". From what I was told, no one had changed the name. Safari has been crashing also. It will not even load a web page. Tried fixing permissions and had no luck. Any ideas?

"The name of my in-laws Macintosh HD has been changed to "test"."
Go to System Preferences/Accounts. In the panel on the left you will see:
My Account/Admin Under that: Other Accounts: Test
Where it says; Automatic Login: Click the pop up menu and select their Admin account.
It sounds like they somehow managed to log in using their Test account instead of the Administrator account. No harm done, but that's why that hard disk icon says: Test.
*For Safari... next time please post as a separate topic* but for now.
With Safari open, form the Menu Bar, click Safari/Reset Safari and reboot.
And more Safari help here; http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20081125233128968
Carolyn

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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.
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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.
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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
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Mac hard drive name

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Could be some accident, keyboard commands were chosen & highlighted
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in some instances. There are several shortcuts going way back to early
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if you happen across the correct keys, even by accident.
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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

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I'm looking for a reliable, flexible and "idiot proof" backup system and am currently considering Chronosync for the job.
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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
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set sourceName to text item 3 of mysource
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mydelimiter
else
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end if
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set destiName to text item 3 of mydesti
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mydelimiter
else
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set cancelbackup to false
if sourceName is not in drivenames then
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if myaction = "Check again!" then
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if sourceName is in drivenames then
exit repeat
end if
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set cancelbackup to true
exit repeat
end if
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end if
if cancelbackup is false then
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repeat until 1 = 0
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if myaction = "Check again!" then
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if destiName is in drivenames then
exit repeat
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else
set cancelbackup to true
exit repeat
end if
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Get my Root's Hard Drive name through CLI (or Applescript)

How do I retrieve the current name of my hard drive through the command line? It needs to be in a way that will allow me to easily parse it. I first tried this:
$ ls -l /Volumes/ | grep -E '> /$'
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which is pretty close, except for removing all the other stuff would be tricky (due to all the variations that could occur in different scenarios). So then I tried the following:
$ diskutil info -plist / | grep '<key>VolumeName</key>' -A 1 | tail -n 1
<string>demoive HD</string>
which is more robust in my mind and totally works, however, it causes my optical drive make the little noise indicating that it's checking to see if I have a disk...and that sort of thing won't suffice for what I need (both because of the noise and delay of ~1.5 seconds).
If someone knows of a way through AppleScript, that would work too as I can use the 'osascript' command via the command line.
Cheers.

Three AppleScript examples:
osascript -e '"/" as POSIX file' | sed -e 's/:$//'
osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to get name of startup disk'
osascript -e 'item 1 of (list disks)'
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#!/bin/zsh
cd /Volumes
for d in *(@-/) # use * for bash
do
if [ "$(readlink "$d")" = '/' ]; then echo $d; exit; fi
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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

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Is this normal or what?? Might explain some weird external hard drive problems.
MBP July 07
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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.

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just got back to taking a look at this...
appreciate the suggested terminal commands but no luck. I get this with both command line versions:
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chflags: /Volumes/HQ: No such file or directory
chflags: 2big: No such file or directory
chflags: Quadra: No such file or directory
chflags: RAID: No such file or directory
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Dear Apple experts,
I have a Macbook Pro OS X 10.6.8 and a 1.5 TB Hard Drive (USB 2.0), to which I'd like to create a backup disk image.
the 1.5 TB Hard Drive already has about 300 GB of data on it and is formatted NTFS
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I've researched and have read HT1553: Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: How to back up and restore your files
"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US"
I had a few ideas:
1. Partitioning the drive into 2 and formatting: 50% is NTFS and 50% is OS Extended.
Can this can be done via Disk Utility?
Can it be done without having to format, potentially losing all existing data on the external hard drive?
2. Buying another drive and formatting it to OS Extended
3. Simply creating a backup disk image to the hard drive without partitioning and formatting - seems straightforward?
this is what I would like to do. If it's not ideal, what would you suggest?
Questions:
1. Since the Macbook has Paragon NTFS, does that mean a backup disk image can be created onto the hard drive (NTFS format)?
2. Importantly, if my Macbook fails, can it read this backup disk image and thus be restored?
BACKUP
If yes to the above, can it be done this way:
Start from Macbook (without the install disk)
Choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
Select the disk I wish to back up (Macintosh HD) in the source pane on the left.
Click "Verify Disk" to check the hard disk for issues. If an issue is found, click "Repair Disk" to repair.
Click the "New Image" button in the toolbar.
Give your image a useful name such as "04-15-2009 Macintosh HD backup". A date in the name makes it easy to tell when the backup was made.
Save destination is a location to the external hard disk, then click "Save" to continue.
Enter your admin name and password if prompted. Imaging process starts.
Expect to take 2-3 hours?
May I use the computer while it is doing this?
9. When the imaging process is complete, select the newly created disk image in the device pane.
Then, choose Images > Scan Image for Restore... from the menu bar, and let the scan complete.
is this step to make sure that the disk image is bootable?
10. Quit Disk Utility (press Command-Q). Then press Command-Q to quit the Mac OS X installer; you will be prompted to restart
RESTORE
In the event, that my laptop dies.
Go to apple store to get hard disk replaced?
How much will this cost?
Or do I get a new laptop altogether?
Connect external hard drive to laptop
Start from your Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Install DVD. (Insert the disc, then restart and hold the C key.)
Select your language. Do not start an installation.
Choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
Select your internal Mac OS X disk that you want to restore to.
Click the Restore tab.
Drag your internal disk to the "Destination:" field.
Click the "Image..." button next to the "Source:" field.
Navigate to the location of the backup image you want to restore (located on your external disk).
Click "Open" to continue.
Click the "Restore" button. Confirm you want to "Restore to Disk" by clicking "Restore" again.
Enter your admin name and password when prompted. If the backup disk image is encrypted, enter the disk image password if necessary. The time it takes to restore from the image depends on factors such as the amount of data on your backup disk image.
What computer will be back to the way it was ?
Q: In what circumstances would I need to use Migration Assistant?
If I bought a new Macbook? For a new macbook, is there any reason why I cannot perform the above steps?
Other
My MacPro is about 3 years old at the moment. It's mainly used at home now, connected to an external monitor, though I used to take it to university.
I hope I didn't significantly shorten it's life by taking it everywhere with me.
How long typically do they last?
When should I expect that there could be 'something wrong'
What maintenance can I do? Verify and repair disks? Take it to the Apple Store to clean the internal fans? It's on 24/7 and sometimes whirs quite loudly.
Sorry if these questions are simplistic, just want to be sure.
Hopefully, your help can assist me and others also in my position.
We appreciate your help

For the sake of simplicity, I just split it into 2 x 750 GB.
I'm going to assume you've already backed up the 300 GB of data that was on there before repartitioning. Also just want to confirm that you made the drive map GUID when you did the partitioning. You will not be able to boot to OS X on the external if you didn't.
Skipping ahead a bit…
if I add files and use the remaining space, will I still be able to restore my computer from the clone?
If you always do a full clone, yes. If you use SuperDuper's! Smart Backup feature (paid version) or Carbon Copy Cloner's similar function, then no. The whole idea of those two is to save massive amounts of backup time by updating only what is needed to get the target drive to match the source.
4. Click "Verify Disk" to check the hard disk for issues. If an issue is found, click "Repair Disk" to repair.
You won't be able to do that. You'd be trying to repair the drive you're currently booted to before cloning it. You can only repair a drive that is not the same as the startup drive. The only way you have of doing that at the moment is to boot to your 10.6.x DVD and run Disk Utility from there to do a Repair Disk of the main drive.
5 through 9
No. Skip all of that. You'd only succeed in putting a .dmg file of the main drive onto the Mac partition of the external. You will still have no way to boot to, or restore it. Please follow the instructions I noted above for cloning the main drive to the external. The result will be an exact duplicate with all of the files and folders on the drive as on any other drive. Not compressed into a drive image. To repeat…
3) You can now use Disk Utility to clone your MBP's hard drive to the Mac formatted partition on the external. Click any logical drive (it doesn't matter which one) and choose the Restore tab. Drag and drop the MPB's logical hard drive name into the Source field at the right, and the external drive's Mac formatted drive name into the Destination field. Click Restore and let it run without doing anything else.
As an example below. With the Restore tab selected, I dragged "Mac Pro" into the Source field, and "Mavericks" into the Destination field. If I were to click the Restore button towards the lower right, the Mavericks partition will end up as an exact duplicate of whatever is on the Mac Pro drive, whether there's an OS on it or not.
Personally, this is what I would do. Launch Disk Utility and split the Mac OS Extended partition. You can do this now without repartitioning from scratch. Click on the physical drive and click the Partition tab. Grab the lower right dashed corner of the Mac partition and drag it up, like so:
Here, I kind of randomly sized it to 424.57 GB. I could click on the number to round it off if I wanted to. The point is that you will now have a gray area of unused disk space. Click the + button and a new partition will be created to fill the hole. You can do this as many times as you want. By default, the new partition with be Mac OS Extended. Click Apply.
Here's what I do with such a setup.
1) For you, the NTFS partition would be for your Windows data, or data that can be shared between the Mac and Windows. Be careful what Mac files you put on an NTFS drive. I wouldn't put a .dmg file on it.
2) Besides the NTFS partition, you now have two Mac partitions. You could clone the main drive to one of them, which will make it bootable and an exact copy of your main drive. But my choice is to install a bare bones installation of OS X on one of the partitions, along with any drive and file utilities I may need to rescue another drive, or its data. Such as DiskWarrior, File Salvage, Data Rescue, Drive Genius, etc. That's all I have on it.
The other partition is where I store backups of any other data. In this type of setup, the backup of your main drive now can be a .dmg file. You have a separate Mac partition to boot to, where you can restore the .dmg file from the second Mac partition back to the MacBook Pro's main drive.
Kind of getting back to your last question:
Or does that Mac partition have to contain only the disk image (clone) and nothing else?
Not at all a good idea to use the clone partition as a way to also store secondary files. Say you copy all kinds of other data there and then remove it from the main drive to save space. The next time you clone the main drive to the backup, all of that extra data will be wiped out. A clone is literal. Only what exists on the source drive is what will end up being on the target drive. Anything else gets removed. That is at least in part why I use multiple Mac partitions on my external drive.

Back-up / Retrieve Files from an external hard drive that doesn't appear in Devices

Someone please help!
I am going to write the "history" from my disk utility repair here so that other's who copy and paste into search may find it:
(PLEASE SCROLL 13 ROWS DOWN)
Verify and Repair volume “Your Hard Drive Name”
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Keys out of order
Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
The volume could not be repaired.
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Ok. I would really love to reformat this disk, but I have stuff on here from film school that I CAN NOT lose
Question:
How would I go about backing-up the disk if the image doesn't appear under devices? I went to the "Restore" tab/button, but I can not choose the hard drive in the first field. I could have sworn my hard drive was formatted for Mac, but I may have formatted it back to FAT32. I know the disk still functions because when it is powered on, it cycles with/without being connected to my MacPro, but after that, it will only cycle if connected (confirming connection). It does run again when I connect the firewire cable. Here is my equipment:
8-Core MacPro 16GB-Mem RAID
MacOSX 10.6.8 | 2 X 1TB Internal HDD
Aug-2008 15" MacBookPro
(That I used the Maxtor-External with mostly)
DEVICE IN QUESTION
500GB Maxtor One-Touch Plus
FireWire 400 6-pin Connection Bus (2 Ports)
Purchased in Early 2008 from Staples
I can fit the back-up on my 2nd HDD in my MacPro or in my other External:
2 TB G-Technology G-RAID External
1 x eSATA | 2 x FireWire 800 9-pin | 1 x USB 2.0
Self Powered DC-IN
I have had a nightmare searching for answers, so any options you might have would be tremendously helpful. I can't lose the data because I have everything I did during film school on there. That stuff is basically what you pay for when you go to film school, you pay to show what you can do and what equipment you have used. SAVE ME FELLOW APPLE PEOPLE!!!! We COMMAND, as well as CONTROL!
-RaphSai

Get Disk Warrior that will repair the problems without requiring that you reformat the drive - $99.00 on a bootable CD. Will not work on a FAT formatted drive.
You will need to use Drag and Drop to save your files by copying them from the bad drive to a good one.
To reprep the drive:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

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