Renaming External Hard Drive Which Contains Images for LR

After renaming, the catalog is probably going to show that all photos are missing (you’ll see question mark icons), because it can’t find them under the old volume name. No problem…right-click a top level folder in that volume and choose Find Missing Folder. If right-click isn’t enabled on your Mac, Control-click that folder instead. After you select the volume under its new name, Lightroom Classic will re-link images in that folder, and in all of its subfolders.

If there are other top-level folders in that volume, repeat that step for each of them. The higher up you can resolve the folders, the fewer of them you have to do. If there’s only one parent folder on that volume, then you’ll only have to do this once.

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Why bother? The simplest thing to do is to NOT change the drive name? What is the benefit of doing this change?