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There are two likely reasons that you can't change the name of your hard disk, folder, or volume in Mac OS. If you are using Mac OS X or Mac OS 9.x with multiple users, and you aren't logged in as an administrator or the owner, you won't have enough privileges to change the names of hard disks, volumes, and many folders.; In Mac OS 9.x and earlier, if you have File Sharing turned on, you can.
There are two likely reasons that you can't change the name of yourhard disk, folder, or volume in Mac OS:
- If you are using Mac OS X or Mac OS 9.x with multipleusers, and you aren't logged in as an administrator or the owner, youwon't have enough privileges to change the names of hard disks,volumes, and many folders.
- In Mac OS 9.x and earlier, if you have File Sharing turned on, youcan't rename shared hard drives, folders, or other volumes.
To solve these problems, read the instructions below:
Can't Rename Hard Drive Mac Os X 7
If you are not logged in as an administrative user
- In Mac OS X, you must log in as a user with administrative rightsto change the names of disks, volumes, and folders.
- In Mac OS 9 with multiple users turned on, you must log into theowner account to change the names of disks, volumes, and folders.
If you have File Sharing turned on
- From the Apple menu, select Control Panels, then selectFile Sharing (Mac OS 8.0 through Mac OS 9.x) or SharingSetup (Mac OS 7.6.1 and earlier).
- Turn off File Sharing by clicking Stop.
- Rename the volume.
- To re-enable File Sharing, in the
File Sharing
orSharing Setup
window, click Start.
Note: Under special circumstances, an obscure bug inolder versions of Mac OS prevents the renaming of volumes when FileSharing is not active. This happens when a Macintoshrunning a version of System 7.0 (prior to system 7.0.1) has beennetworked with another Macintosh running any version of System 6.0. Ifthe connection between the computers is unexpectedly broken, theSystem 7.0 computer will 'lock' the formerly shared items and will notallow them to be renamed. To address this problem, Apple created autility called Rename Rescue.