Name wont change?

[b4tn]

I posted this in the unix forum and havnt got a responce maybe someone in here can help?

http://www.press3.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11297

 

[DeltaMac]

Yeah, you may be running up against a MAC OS limitation, never recommend using a dot(period) to begin a file name. that's almost always a protected deal. OSX expects files with dot as first character to be hidden. Maybe someone who knows more about Unix can apply that to Unix file structure also.

 

[fryke]

1. Do *not* use dots in volume names at all.

2. Do *not* use dots at the beginning of a name unless you want to hide it.

3. If you change a Volume name in /Volumes this doesn't really matter, because that's just the point in the computer's tree where a volume is mounted, not its actual name.

4. The Finder might not actually take on the changes you make in Terminal. The Finder's known to be a bit 'slow' in this aspect.

But can you describe what you actually want to accomplish? I guess you aim at something completely different than just renaming the volume, else you could just do it in the Finder.

 

[b4tn]

I have 5 partitions my 10.1 drive, my 9.2drive, my swap file drive, and my norton diagnostic drive. I don't want to see the diagnostic drive or the swap drive. The finder wont let me change the name with a . so I did it with sudo no luck. I finaly did it from 9.2 but I don't think I should have to reboot to 9 so I was trying from the terminal. So how do you change names of volumes in the terminal so it reflects in the finder?

 

[beef]

if you have installed dev tools, there's SetFile in /developer/tools

you can hide things you don't want to see with this.

SetFile -a V whateveryouwanttohide

should do it.

If you have some partitions, there's probably "temporary items" and "desktop folder" in each one...and afaik, there's no use for them. It's not a big deal, but if you find them annoying, you can hide them, too... or just trash them... I think some of them came back for whatever the reason... or I forgot to delete one or two... so I just d hide them all now...

in any case, this "SetFile" (you might want to add alias for it... with all lower case) was covered in some other thread...