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How to rename a WD Elements external hard drive

coyotepas Posted messages 2 Status Member -  
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Good evening
I am taking the liberty of writing to you directly as I have a bit of an aesthetic issue, so to speak
I have a 2TB WD MyCloud and I just bought a WD Elements HDD that I renamed VIDEOS, but when I connect it to the WD MyCloud it appears as Element_XXX.
Is it possible to rename it without formatting????

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    dede74000 Posted messages 26996 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 370
     
    Good evening,

    With the disk connected and mounted, it appears on the Mac desktop. Click to select it, then press the "enter" key to highlight the name; simply type the new name in the window, and it will be recognized with the new name.

    Here's what it looks like:


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    1. coyotepas Posted messages 2 Status Member
       
      Thank you for the reply, but my icon is a disk with 3 little figures, it is connected to a network hard drive, and I cannot change its name as usual.
      Likewise, in information, I am also on Mac.
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    2. dede74000 Posted messages 26996 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 370
       
      If you weren't on a Mac, I think you would have posted elsewhere ;-)
      I don't know how network drives work, but I suppose you must be the network administrator to be able to change the name, by going to the base of the network. (Is the base a router?)
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    3. dede74000 Posted messages 26996 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 370
       
      Maybe there's a trick: you connect just this single drive to your Mac and you should be able to change its name using the normal method.
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