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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: how to rename a volume with a toolbox call?
Message-ID: <9555@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 19:38:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 19:38:43 1985
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In article <6531@boring.UUCP> guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>Can anyone explain me how I can rename a Volume (= disk) using some
>toolbox call from within an application I'm writing (in C)?
>
>Inside Macintosh suggests that this is possible using Rename or PBRename,
>and I've tried the first, but it keeps complaining about "file not found"
>(error 43).

I haven't tried this personally, but I believe that the trick is to
specify the old/new volume name with a colon; eg., 'quux:' rather
than 'quux'.  (This is how the system differenciates between renaming
a file and renaming a volume.)

You can also specify the source volume by refnum, rather than by name.