Re: Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine.

From	Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems
Subject	Re: Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine.
Date	2021-02-04 00:37 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
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In message <atGdnQxUqL6kh4b9nZ2dnUU7-QmdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
>> In message <pu-dnUgN2rZ54If9nZ2dnUU7-K-dnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>> > Hello.

>> > Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update 
>> > in Big Sur's Time Machine.

>> > In the past with Mojave v10.14.6, I could do that and Time Machine would 
>> > see the updated names. Is this broken in Big Sur (seen in both v11.1 and 
>> > v11.2)? This is on a month old 2020 13" MacBook Pro (Intel i7 CPU).

>> I do not understand what you mean by this.

>> Are you renaming the drive that is the Time Machine Target? Why the hell
>> would you ever do that? You name it TARDIS and you leave it at that name
>> forever. (Tardis is acceptable)

> Yes, renaming it because I don't like the old name I gave a few weeks 
> ago when I set it up.

Since Time Machine uses the UUID of the drive, it doesn't are what the
name is. O can't think of any reason why someone would have spent time
have TM check the drive's name after setup.

I'll have to take your work for it that this used to happen, but TM is
quite different in Big Sur.

-- 
"you'd think you could trust a horde of hungarian barbarians"

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Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-02-03 04:41 -0600
  Re: Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-02-03 17:15 +0000
  Re: Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine. Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-02-03 18:55 +0000
    Re: Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-02-03 15:48 -0600
      Re: Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine. Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-02-04 00:37 +0000
        Re: Renaming my mounted external USB3 Seagate 4TB HDD's names doesn't update in Big Sur's Time Machine. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-02-04 00:23 -0600

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