#How do you find mac computer name full#

I want to know if there is any way to get my Time Machine backups, (on my Time Capsule) to go back to making incremental back ups without first having to completely do a full backup from scratch. I stumbled onto your site here after exhaustive searching to no avail. If you close this window and restart the computer, you should find that your iMac now identifies itself with the new name you’ve specified. Now, while you’re at the main Sharing window, change the name here too:

First, click on the “Edit…” button:Ĭhange the computer name here to what you want to have as your computer’s identity on the local network, and click “OK”. Not so good, but let’s fix things in order. What you seek here is “Sharing”, almost exactly dead-center in the window.Ĭlick on it and you’ll jump into the sharing configuration window:Īs you can see, I already have a name collision on my network, which is why this computer is identifying itself as “Dave’s MacBook Pro (2)”: the “(2)” is added by Mac OS X when it finds another computer on the network with the same name. (if you’re trying to do that, you might well find that the Apple support docs are insufficient for 10.5 and above too)Ĭhanging the name of your used iMac on the network shouldn’t be quite so difficult because there’s a place in the System Preferences to do just that, but what is a bit tricky is that you have to change the name twice for it to work.įirst off, go to Apple –> System Preferences…. In fact, I recently changed the admin account on a MacBook, including the home directory, and it took almost half an hour of careful steps, most done from the Terminal at the command line, before I was convinced it was done correctly and wouldn’t blow up on the new owner of the system when they tried to restart or log in. The way that Mac OS X and its underlying Unix foundation are designed, it’s relatively easy to set up account and computer names and related on first run, but can be quite complicated to change them once you’ve gotten apps installed, documents created and otherwise have used the machine for a while.