Hard Drive Name For Mac

Since there are no OS X viruses that have been identified yet, that's probably not the issue.


My Mac mini's internal hard drive is imaginatively named 'Mac mini.' Since I don't have more than one hard drive, I'm more creative with computer/device names. Right now, my Mac mini is Minion, my iPad is Micron, and my iPhone is Muon. My WiFi network is Myriad. Under Devices, click on the hard drive. Below the icon of the hard drive, click and hold on the name of the hard drive, until a field opens. Enter the new name for the hard drive.

Under Devices, click on the hard drive. Below the icon of the hard drive, click and hold on the name of the hard drive, until a field opens. Enter the new name for the hard drive. To see the size of a specific file or folder, click it once and then press Command-I. To see storage information about your Mac, click the Apple menu in the top-left of your screen. Choose About This Mac and click the Storage tab. For Time Machine backups, it's good to use a drive that has at least twice the storage capacity of your Mac. The Clean Drive tool in Parallels Toolbox. The Clean Drive tool, one of the more than 40 tools in Parallels Toolbox, is tailor-made to help you manage free space on the Mac Hard Drive, especially in the area of files that you really don’t need, like log or cache files, or the temp files created by some Mac apps. (See Figure 2.).

There are a few possibilities. The most common one is when a user is using an application, inadvertantly slides the pointer to the desktop and selects a file, then begins to type (renaming the file). It's pretty simple to do, though most of the time you notice.


Hard Drive Name For Mac

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Hard Drive Name For Mac

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The next possibility is that there's errors on the disk. Use Disk Utility to check the disk for errors and repair them, if possible. This sort of problem manifests itself a peculiar file name changes, messed up file permissions, etc. This can occur a number of ways, as the result of hardware issue, as a result of sudden shutdown at the wrong time (though, if using journaled HFS+, there should be little chance of that), or if you accessed the disk using a different OS (e.g., if using Boot Camp and Mac Drive and you don't unmount the disk properly).

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Mar 8, 2012 5:44 AM