Perplexing sponataneous drive renaming

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I fixed it, I think it stemmed from not renaming the other G drive. When I named the other G drive Z everything was ok.

The fix is a kludge. As previously noted, There's a way to assign a permanent name to a peripheral. I never learned it because there was no reason to. For example, a USB port device may have the name USB1:. Or it can be named as a device called Dove. When that drive connects, the OS sees it as a piece of hardware called DOVE (not G.