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Changing hard drive name?!
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Someone that knows technically about this issue, will it confuse some applications? Can you switch your hd name every minute if you wanted? I dont know how panther handles this, does anyone have a definitive answer on this? I heard spaces and // can cause some problems, but no one has been really able to tell me why. Any input would be appreciated.
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If it's the boot volume, it will not confuse applications. If it's another volume it will confuse apps that rely on a file path (instead of aliases or FSRefs). Those apps are sometimes called bad apps.
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yeah its just my internal powerbook drive, do spaces matter, for example i wanted to name it "The Milk Bar" after a scene in Clockwork Orange, will those spaces be ok? and as far as those backslashes, they dont do anything either if I was going to make it //Milk Bar\\ or something like that?
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Since the default hard disk name is "Macintosh HD" I would say it's pretty save to assume that spaces don't matter. Slash and backslash shouldn't matter either. Especially on the boot volume (since the POSIX path to the boot volume doesn't contain the name at all).
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Originally posted by Aluminum:
yeah its just my internal powerbook drive, do spaces matter, for example i wanted to name it "The Milk Bar" after a scene in Clockwork Orange, will those spaces be ok? and as far as those backslashes, they dont do anything either if I was going to make it //Milk Bar\\ or something like that?
Characters to definitely avoid in all file, folder, application and hard disk names are : and / (there may be others but I can't recall them).
In MacOS 9 and earlier, : is the path separator and as such will cause problems if used in a filename. Likewise / in OS X. If you are sharing files with Windows, avoid using special characters at all - the Window's filesystem has a much less forgiving number that it can recognise so it is easier to avoid them all together.
So, don't use : or / as you will have problems. Spaces in the names are fine (My boot partition is called MacOS X Disk for example). I have no idea what constantly cycling the name of the hard drive would do.
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