Hi, This sort of thing happens when your Mac detects another computer on your local network with the same local host name. Of course, in your case, there probably wasn't another computer with exactly the same local host name, so, it was likely a holdover somewhere else. When this happens, your Mac automatically change its name because you can't have multiple devices on the same network with the same local host name. You can usually fix this by going into System Preferences, Sharing and just taking the number off the end of the computer name in the Edit field.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Barry Abbott <bpabbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all. For years My computer name has been "Barry's iMac. For some reason > it now shows up as "Barry's iMac (7)" > > I have no ideas as to why or how this happened but just noticed the change > today. I can't seem to change it back. > > I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite last week. > > Any ideas? > > For a time I had Webroute Anti virus software on both Macs but it caused so > may headaches that I got rid of it. > Barry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
