Chrome OS Will Soon Allow All Chromebook Owners to Rename USB Flash Drives | Linux Today

Chrome OS Will Soon Allow All Chromebook Owners to Rename USB Flash Drives

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Marius Nestor
Sep 7, 2017

A new “Rename” option has been added to the right-click context menu of the Files app on Chrome OS, which allows you to rename an attached USB flash storage devices, be it either a USB stick or an external drive. The renaming feature, which is currently available on the Chrome Canary experimental channel, can also be enabled using the CTRL+Enter keyboard shortcut on your Chromebook. The Files app has also received a “Recent” folder in latest Chrome Canary, which will show recently modified files from your Google Drive, the Downloads folder, as well as Media views on Chromebooks that already support Google Play Store. In addition, the Chrome OS Canary experimental channel now offers users a new “Reverse scrolling” setting for the mouse wheel.

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Marius Nestor

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