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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Unchangable device names in 7.0b5
Keywords: system 7 device names
Message-ID: <52684@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 May 91 04:49:20 GMT
References: <1991May8.190056.3001@odgate.odesta.com>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Todd Grinnell:
|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?

error -59 means "can't rename."

The reason is that you have File Sharing turned on, and that prevents
disks from being renamed.

Is this a bug or a feature? Hell, don't ask me.

bill coderre
who actually has read the manuals