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From: teg@odgate.odesta.com (Todd Grinnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Unchangable device names in 7.0b5
Summary: Can't change 'em, dunno why.
Keywords: system 7 device names
Message-ID: <1991May8.190056.3001@odgate.odesta.com>
Date: 8 May 91 19:00:56 GMT
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Organization: Odesta Corporation
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I'm running System 7.0b5 on my Mac IIfx and I've noticed that, except on
rare occasions, I can no longer change the names of my devices.  When I
bring up Balloon Help and place the arrow over a device's name, I get "This
icon's name cannot be changed."  The disk is not locked in any way (I can
change the name with system 6.0.7 running), and no other tools can change
the name either (MPW and Disktop give an OS error -59, file system internal
error).  This happens to others running system 7.0b5 on other macs as well.
Is this a bug or a feature?

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