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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I feel like such a n00b asking this, but I want to rename the hard drive on my laptop.
Back in the day I renamed my hard drives (considering it "naming my computer") and even applied custom icons. Not sure why I'm so timid about doing it now, but wondered if there was anything wrong about doing it these days. This is what getting old looks like, boys and girls and all points in between. HOLP? ... |
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Sneaky Punk
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Nothing to stop you from renaming the boot drive, won't hurt anything.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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I've been renaming my boot hard drive since the System 7 days back in the early '90s. Same since installing the Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000. Ditto for pasting on custom icons.
It's perfectly safe.  … For the most part.  The only potentially risky thing is if you have spaces or "special" characters in the drive name. There was the infamous iTunes 2.0 installer bug about twenty years ago where an Apple engineer failed to handle spaces in drive names correctly, and it could result in wiping your whole system. Whoops!  I haven't seen anything like that in a very long time, but I still stick to one-word drive names just to be safe.The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: near Bremen, Germany
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That said, yes, escaping mistakes continue to be just as easy to make as they were in 2001, because apparently, programmers like pain (and for users to feel it). |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I dream of escaping my mistakes - but I actually do know what you mean
 I'm looking forward to renaming my machine now! Time to think of some good names... ... |
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