Cannot rename my San Disk extreme portable 2TB exfat hard drive

[Sossity]

No matter what I do, I cannot rename it, I get this device cannot be renamed, do not use punctuation marks and use fewer characters.

I have never had this problem before. I am on a CMP 5,1 running High Sierra.

 

[Fravin]

MacOS can't handle some partitions types. It can write and read data but not changing it.

Try to reformat it under Disk Utilitty as GUID partition with ExFat format.

 

[justashooter]

What format is the drive? If you used it out of the box, it is probably in fat32 (maybe exfat). Both have limitations in file name length - 11 or 12 characters.

If you do as Fravin suggests be aware that the disk won't be useable on a Windows System, if you use it on both systems. GUID partition with exfat fomat is not readable on Windows.

If it is formatted as HFS is it possible it has a security lock of some sort on it??

 

[Fravin]

GUID partition with exfat fomat is not readable on Windows.

Didn't know that.

Thank you!