IPhone 3Gs changes its name

My iPhone 3Gs has suddently changed its name to 2012. I have restarted the iPhone, the computer (iMac Intel) and installed the latest version of iTunes (9.0.3), but the problem began with the previous version. I can sync the iPhone with iTunes and all the apps, etc. are OK. Does anybody know what could have caused this?

There are no viruses that affect or infect OS X for 10 years running now, and the iPhone runs an optimized version of OS X.
With the exception of a hacked/jailbroken iPhone, nothing can be installed on an iPhone from a recieved email or from a website except for a photo, and I'm unaware of any malware being included with a jpeg file. Unless you have hacked/jailbroken your iPhone which allows for installing unofficial software downloaded from unknown and untrusted sorces, you have nothing to worry about in regards to any malware.
Unless the name of your iPhone continues to change without any interaction on your part, more than likely just an unusual quirk.

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11lizzyp wrote:
can't be saved because the file is read-only.
I did not create the file to be read-only. I created to be able to continue to add to it as I work on it.
More on versions here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4753
local snapshots:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4878
Sounds like a permissions problem ie read only.
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http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6925/picture5jb5.png

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I would suggest setting a DNS name for your server. You can search on these forms for examples of setting up DNS. (In fact, I've had problems with the software update service if the server didn't have DNS setup correctly.)
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ACTC
Husson College and the New England School of Communications

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Rando510 wrote:
Although clunky as you say, this sounds like a reasonably efficient way to accomplish what I was seeking.
Address Book has no global find/replace. Bob Grove suggested one possible workaround; however, a grep-capable text editor (eg, TextWrangler) is better than TextEdit if complex strings are involved.
An alternative is Bento (which is designed specifically to interact with the AB database), but it's not free.

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Hello David. Open System Preferences > Sharing. At the top you will see Computer Name and the old Mac Pro name. Highlight this and change to the preferred name.
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You need to go through the basic troubleshooting steps as described in the User Guide:
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AppleScript: copy a file to a new location, changing its name

I want to copy a selected file to a new location and change its name, both location and name adjustable by the user. It would seem natural to me (a neophyte) to use the Duplicate and Choose File Name commands to do this, so this is the module I came up with:
tell application "Finder"
          set myFile to the selection
          set textsAlias to alias "Campidoglio:Users:jeffreyjdean:Dropbox:Tinctoris:Editing Software:TextToJS:texts:"
          set fileForConversion to choose file name default name "shortname.txt" default location textsAlias
          try
duplicate document file myFile to fileForConversion with replacing
          on error
                    display dialog "Error: Unable to save file."
          end try
end tell
This doesn't work. The error dialog comes up and this is the result report:
tell application "Finder"
get selection
--> {document file "12 De inventione et usu musice.txt" of folder "Edited texts" of folder "Desktop" of folder "jeffreyjdean" of folder "Users" of startup disk}
choose file name default name "shortname.txt" default location alias "Campidoglio:Users:jeffreyjdean:Dropbox:Tinctoris:Editing Software:TextToJS:texts:"
--> file "Campidoglio:Users:jeffreyjdean:Dropbox:Tinctoris:Editing Software:TextToJS:texts:shortname.txt"
-- 'core'\'clon'{ 'insh':'furl'("file://localhost/Users/jeffreyjdean/Dropbox/Tinctoris/Editing%20 Software/TextToJS/texts/shortname.txt"), 'alrp':'true'("true"), '----':'obj '{ 'form':'indx', 'want':'docf', 'seld':[ 'obj '{ 'form':'name', 'want':'docf', 'seld':'utxt'("12 De inventione et usu musice.txt"), 'from':'obj '{ 'form':'name', 'want':'cfol', 'seld':'utxt'("Edited texts"), 'from':'obj '{ 'form':'name', 'want':'cfol', 'seld':'utxt'("Desktop"), 'from':'obj '{ 'form':'name', 'want':'cfol', 's…
--> error number -1700 from {document file "12 De inventione et usu musice.txt" of folder "Edited texts" of folder "Desktop" of folder "jeffreyjdean" of folder "Users" of startup disk} to integer
display dialog "Error: Unable to save file."
--> {button returned:"OK"}
end tell
Result:
{button returned:"OK"}
Why is it telling me it can't duplicate a file to an integer? According to the AS Language Guide, the result of Choose File Name is "The selected location, as a file." How does this become an integer in my script?
That may be a side show. What I really want to work out is how to achieve the aim stated at the beginning: take a selected file (that part is working OK) and duplicate it to an arbitrary location with an arbitrary new name, decided by the user. What's the best way to go about this?
TIA,
Jeff
Message was edited by: Jeffrey Dean

I think you're misinterpreting the error message.
It's not complaining about your 'Choose File Name', per se.
There are two problems with your script.
First, you:
          set myFile to the selection
As far as the Finder is concerned, 'selection' is a list. It's always a list, even if only one item is selected - heck, it's still a list if no files are selected... just an empty list.
So that's the first thing the script is complaining about - you are using a list that you're trying to coerce to a file. Can't happen.
You have a couple of options here, depending on what you want to do.
You can tell the Finder to duplicate a list - it will simply duplicate all the files in the list. It has no problem with that, although you're going to run into problems when you try to set the file name(s). This highlights one of the design flaws with your script - how do you know the user only has one thing selected? At the very least you should check how many items are selected and react accordingly.
The other option is to iterate through the list, duplicating each file in turn. Again, it's not clear what you want/expect the outcome to be here - since you include 'with replacing', you'd likely end up with one file (the last one in the list) as being the named file and all other duplicates lost.
The third option is to expect there to be one item selected, and just act upon the first one - thereby ignoring multiple selections, although it's undefined as to which item is 'first' in the list.
Your call.
Once you get over the issue of identifying what you want to duplicate, the second issue with your script is how you're calling duplicate. You cannot duplicate one file to another file name. The duplicate command expects (demands?) a directory as the 'to' parameter, not a file name.
In other words, you can duplicate a file to a new directory. You cannot duplicate it to a new file name - at least not in one step. In order to do that you need to duplicate the file, then change its name (or use a shell script to do it 'under the hood').
This is complicated by the fact that it's the rename that requires you to check for duplicates, which you have to do manually.
So given the above, and assuming you expect/want one item to be selected, your script should look more like:
tell application "Finder"
          set myFile to item 1 of (get selection) -- ignore multiple selections
          set textsAlias to alias "Campidoglio:Users:jeffreyjdean:Dropbox:Tinctoris:Editing Software:TextToJS:texts:"
          set fileForConversion to choose file name default name "shortname.txt" default location textsAlias
          set fDir to do shell script "/usr/bin/dirname " & POSIX path of fileForConversion
          set fName to do shell script "/usr/bin/basename " & POSIX path of fileForConversion
          try
                    set newFile to duplicate myFile to POSIX file fDir with replacing
                    if (exists file fName of folder fDir) then
delete file fName of folder fDir
                    end if
                    set name of newFile to fName
          on error
                    display dialog "Error: Unable to save file."
          end try
end tell
Incidentally, this is something that could be much more easily done with a shell command, since the shell isn't as sensitive about file paths and data types.

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