How do I change the name of my external hard drive?

When I updated to OSX Mavericks my external hard drive changed its name from "HD-PZU3" to "HD-PZU3 1". Which you can imagine has messed up all my applications, the most important being iTunes, and it would be great if I could just change the name back so as to keep the preferences on most of my applications the same.

In the Library module, in the Folders tab on the left, do a right-click "show parent" until you can see the root of the drive.
From there, if you cannot rename the drive from there, then rename it in the OS finder/explorer. Then you just need to reconnect that one root directory or drive entry and Lightroom will do all the work for you.

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Am I being a plonker, but it doesn't seem as simple as that. If I try and import via itunes it seems to want me to select the individual music file not the folder which holds all the music.
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dckramermd wrote:
How can I move software program over to an external hard drive to free up space on my imac. I have move documents and photos and movies but the only thing left is softward programs. How do you move them to the external drive?
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Did you empty the Trash after moving all that data to the EHD??

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Shootist007 wrote:
I have never had any problems with a drive formatted FAT32 or exFAT on a Win PC when connected to a Mac.
Would you please comment on these two links
<http://krishaamer.com/2011/07/10/exfat-mac-pc-compatible-disk/>
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2767345?start=0&tstart=0>
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