renaming hard drive, carefully
renaming hard drive, carefully
- Subject: renaming hard drive, carefully
- From: fred <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:24:37 -0800 (PST)
Folks --
A cautionary note. A while back, I seem to remember renaming things
like hard drives (or home directory in my case) in OS X could cause
problems on subsequent reboots. Assume this is no longer true, but
thought the question shuld be asked *before* action is taken, just
in case.
regs,
-f
Will wrote:
wm> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:05:56 -0800
wm> From: Will Mortensen <email@hidden>
wm> Subject: Re: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 can't run 'X11.app' (with system log)
wm> To: Michael Leung <email@hidden>
wm> Michael,
wm> In other words, you should rename your disk from "Michael's
wm> Home" to something like "Michael_Home". I think you'll also
wm> need to re-do whatever you did to move your home directory
wm> originally.
wm> On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
wm>
jh> Yes, I understand that it is Volumes/Michael's Home/Users/Michael/.Xauthority
jh> As mentioned in my previous post, the problem seems to be
jh> your use of single quote "'" and spaces " " in your
jh> pathname. Both are highly problematic and should be avoided
jh> at all costs... especially for something like your home
jh> directory. My assertion remains that this *IS* the source
jh> of the problem.
jh> Please file a bug report at http://xquartz.macosforge.org
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