How To Rename Your DVD Drive in the Eject Menu

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    Feb 19, 2013 #1
    king13p

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    This tutorial will show you how to rename your DVD drives in the Eject Menu.

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    Rather then have a dvd drive labeled ATAPI iHBS112 2, I would like to have it labeled Superdrive.

    So this tutorial will show you how to do this.

    Navigate to:

    Code (Text):
    System > Library > CoreServices > Menu Extras > Eject.Menu
    If you don't have an Eject menu then just double click Eject.Menu and it will show up in the bar.

    Code (Text):
    Now Right click > Show Package Contents > Contents > Resources > English.lproj
    Make a Copy of the file Localizable.strings and paste it in the same directory.

    Rename it to Localizable.strings.bak

    Open Localizable.Strings in TextWrangler and make this change
    Code (Text):

        <key>%@ %@</key>
        <string>%1$@ %2$@</string>
     
    to
    Code (Text):

        <key>%@ %@</key>
        <string>%1$@ SuperDrive</string>
     
    Now File > Save a Copy > Click Desktop and Save

    Close TextWrangler and choose Don't Save

    The new strings file should be on the desktop, Copy it manually from Desktop to the English.lproj folder and overwrite the original file. You may need to Authenticate.

    Now simply Restart the Computer and you should see SuperDrive as the name on your Eject Menu

    Keep in mind this doesn't actually rename the drive. If you have more then one drive all drives will be labeled the same, but there should be a label for applied that will say Upper SuperDrive and Lower SuperDrive. But I'm not sure as I have no Hackintosh with Dual DVD Drives.

    Good Luck
     

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