Rename drives

Is it possible to rename internal drives? I have two drives and would like to identify each one for the purposes of automated burning with Automator.
Thanks
Richard

Right about now I am giving myself a dope-slap.
When I asked about naming drives it didn't even remotely occur to me that someone would think I was talking about hard drives.
Doh. . .
What I should have asked is. . .
Is it possible to rename internal CD/DVD burner (drives). I am trying to get Automator burn two different folders to two different burners concurrently.
Thanks
Richard

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Renaming Drives Connected to Time Capsule by USB

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One of my three external USB drives houses my iTunes library. However, I originally intended to use this drive for backup, so I called it 'Time Machine' when I originally formatted it. I have now bought another drive for backup, so would like to change the name of the first drive, without causing either iTunes or the Mac OS to have a nervous breakdown. What should/ can I do?
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Hello, Cameron.
I think you could just rename the drive in Finder and then change the location of your iTunes library to it's location on the renamed drive.
When iTunes cannot find your library on the drive with the old name, it will ask you to either create a new library or choose an existing library, so you will want to choose your existing library on your renamed disk.
I hope this answers your question.
Good luck!

Why does my computer rename my external drives?

I have three daisy-chained LaCie external drives (1, 2, and 3.) They have been working flawlessly for several years. Suddenly last month, my iMac renamed drive 2 as drive 1, drive 1 as drive 3, etc. It took me a bit to straighten it all out. Yesterday it did it again. What tha' HEY???!

I don't know if this applies, but I had a similar problem with a USB stick and the only way I found to prevent Spotlight from indexing the drive every time it was connected, was to create an empty file called .Spotlight-V100 in the root directory of the USB stick.
Strangely, my backup drive does not have that problem, I dragged it once in the Privacy pane of Spotlight and that seems to have done the trick.

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Here are the instructions to use Disk Utility for this:
You can duplicate the current backups to a different disk via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder). You cannot use the normal "drag & drop" with the Finder, as that won't copy their unusual structure properly.
You can duplicate to a disk/partition of the same or larger size. You may be able to copy to a smaller one, but you might not. If the old (source) disk has ever been near full, the files may be scattered over it in a way that you can't duplicate them to a smaller disk/partition.
Note that you must duplicate an entire disk/partition to another entire disk/partition -- you cannot copy only selected backups, or backups of selected items, or merge two or more sets of backups. And if you have other items on the disk, they will be copied also (this is a bad idea: see item 3 above).
In addition, if your backups were made wirelessly, you cannot copy them to a directly-attached internal disk, or an external FireWire or USB disk, and continue making backups to that disk, or vice-versa. This is because backups made wirelessly are stored differently from those done directly.
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b. Be sure to format the new drive correctly. See item #5 Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum. for detailed instructions.
c. Connect both drives to your Mac, then open a Finder window. Make sure both partitions are shown in the sidebar (if not, from the Menubar select Preferences > Sidebar, and check the box to show +External disks+ in the sidebar). Leave the Finder window open.
d. Start Disk Utility, select either partition (indented under the main drive line), and click the Restore tab.
e. Drag the old partition to the Source box, and the new partition to the Destination box.
f. Be sure to check the +Erase destination+ box, then the Restore button. This may, of course, take a long time.
g. When the duplication is complete, note that DU has *changed the name* of the destination partition to be the same as the source. You do not want to leave it that way, so immediately rename one of the partitions. In the sidebar of the Finder window opened above, control-click (right-click) the one you want to rename. When done, look back at the Disk Utility display to be sure you renamed the right one, then quit Disk Utility.
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Sort of. My media was on multiple hard drives, some local, and actually some networked, and then I conolidated it to a single external hard drive. Renaming drives and moving files sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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I tried everything including reinstalling itunes many time but it would not work, i even tried to delete the whole itunes folder and imported my roomate's itunes folder on my computer and itunes still would not open.
I tried to use windows power toy program to change the special folder address, but the folder "my music" is missing from the list while everything else is on there.
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Well you did far more work and possibly screwed up your pc for an easy fix. You can change the drive letter through the utility called "Computer Management"
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Sort of. My media was on multiple hard drives, some local, and actually some networked, and then I conolidated it to a single external hard drive. Renaming drives and moving files sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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Renaming files in batchscript

what is the code in batch script for renaming the file

788996,
You've opened up a bunch of questions on this board, not closed them, sometimes asked the same question twice -- what's going on?
Could you please gather your thoughts, figure out what you want to do, and put it all together into a single question?
And some of the answers to your questions are but a Google search away.
Assuming Windows:
c:\ren /?
RENAME [drive:][path]filename1 filename2.
REN [drive:][path]filename1 filename2.
Note that you cannot specify a new drive or path for your destination file.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

Swapped hard drives, but now Aperture does not recognize library file

I just swapped out my MBP hard drive for a larger one. I used SuperDuper to restore the small HD to the new, larger one from a third Firewire disk.
Everything else is working fine, except that Aperture says that "The selected master image is either offline or not found. Please reconnect it and try again." every time I try to do anything meaningful with any file in my library.
I have:
-Repaired permissions on the new HD with Disk Utility
-Tried several times moving the library file around to various places, telling Aperture where to find it each time, and restarting Aperture. Aperture finds the images okay, but I can't really do anything with them, as I get the above error message.
-Renamed my new HD, going through the Aperture Prefs, and re-specifying where the library lives, and then repeating the process with the HD named yet again.
Nothing seems to work for me. What else can I try?

1. Are you using referenced or managed Masters?
2. If using referenced Masters, have you tried reconnecting them via File>Manage Referenced Files...? What happens if you right-click on a thumbnails and pick 'Show in Finder'?
3. If using managed Masters, have you done a Spotlight search inside the Library package (right-click on it in the Finder and choose 'Show Package Contents') to see if the master files are still in there?
Moving the Library and/or renaming drives isn't going to help without finding out exactly where Aperture thinks the files should be.
Ian

Disk Utility -- order of internal hard drives in drive list?

I just upgraded my Mac Pro with two additional hard drives, installed in Bay 2 and Bay 3. Both drives are the same, Western Digital 250GB model WD2500KS. The stock drive is a 250GB Seagate.
My question is in regards to the order in which the drives appear in the list of drives (left-column) of Disk Utility. In other Macs I've owned, the drive installed into the first, or "main" internal drive bay would show up at the top of the list, with subsequent drives ordered below.
On my Mac Pro, with the drives installed as described above, the WD drive installed in Bay 2 shows up first in the list (at the top), then the Seagate (Bay 1) second, then the WD drive in Bay 3 third.
Now admittedly, this is not really an issue, as the drives work fine and I can manage them in Disk Utility without problems. I'm just curious as to why they are lining up out of the usual "order"? Is there a way to rearrange them in the list? I'd actually prefer to have my startup drive (Bay 1) listed first, with the other two BELOW that drive. Is there a preference file I can alter, or some other way of manually ordering them?
I tried zapping PRAM, which did not help. I also tried uninstalling the drive in Bay 2 and then reinstalling it. This actually worked temporarily. When I rebooted, the Bay 2 (WD) drive showed up in the list below the Bay 1 drive (Seagate) as desired. But upon another restart, it showed up at the top of the list again! Strange behavior.
Any thoughts?
I am running Tiger 10.4.10 on a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad.
Best,
Alan

Rick,
I've tried playing around with renaming drives (and partitions), and changing the Finder's view options with respect to the order in which drives are listed (either by name or otherwise), but it doesn't have any effect on the ordering of drives in Disk Utility. Seems like it's a separate deal. I think it does have something to do with which physical drive is seen first by the computer as it boots up (pretty much what was said in the first response), and the order in which disk ID's are assigned. Again, the strange thing is that sometimes it does list the Seagate (Bay 1) first, followed by Bay 2 and 3. But usually not. Most of the time, it lists the drive in Bay 2 (and its respective partitions) first, and then Bay 1 with its partitions, then Bay 3. Odd.
If you have any other ideas I'm all ears!
Best,
Alan

Naming my hard drive!

Not a 10.6 query exactly but I've used Boot Camp to create a 100GB Windows XP partition. On my Mac screen I see 'Macintosh HD' then I have the hard disk logo called 'Untitled' I must have missed the label option but how do I change the name? Thanks. PS. Snow Leopard rocks! Just my screen looks like it's upgraded to ultra high definition!

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