bluetoothmacos
I have MBP 2015. I am running Mac OSX Sierra.
I go to my bluetooth preferences and right click and rename a device.
The window for rename comes up. I enter the new text and press rename.
And nothing happens the name of the device just does not change.
No errors … no warnings.
And the final result (no name change)
You can't log into your account because the OS can't find your user directory. You have to boot the computer keeping pressed command + R to enter the restoration/repair mode. Then go to the "Utilities" in the upper menu and enter "Terminal".
Type:
/usr/sbin/diskutil rename "oldname" "newname" where oldname is the name you assigned to the disk and newname should be "Macintosh HD".
If everything is OK you will receive a message informing that the disk was renamed and you can restart your computer and log into your account.
Best Answer
It looks like this is bug that show only up for few users. There is no current solution, I event tried manually changing alias name in plist file but it is short term(until you connect next time).
There is more and more people that are having this issue.
In my company we use Macs mostly and I am the only one having this issue. There are already some support questions opened on apples forum: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7904717 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7927709
I have even spent 2 hours on phone with apple and they are saying it is not a bug XD