TC7.50 In-place file renaming buggy

[edse]

If renaming a file in-place, TC sometimes (i.e. most of the time on my system) discards changes made so far and leaves the edit mode/loses focus. Some other times it even deletes the file to be renamed.

According to my tests the option
Configuration/Operation/"Select only the file name when renaming (not the extension)" doesn't matter.

WinXP Pro SP3+ DE
TC 7.50 (9.9.2009)

BTW: pls. respect the user system date-time format settings or at least use the international ISO-8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD) in the About box. Thx.

[ghisler(Author)]

discards changes made so far and leaves the edit mode/loses focus.

Don't forget to press ENTER to confirm the renaming. Clicking outside the edit box as in Explorer will discard the name.

Some other times it even deletes the file to be renamed.

Sorry but your report is too vague. Please turn on logging via Configuration - Options - Log file, to see what really happens. I guess that you entered a name of a subdirectory, so the file was moved somewhere else. TC now warns when this happens, but the warning can be turned off.

pls. respect the user system date-time format settings

Total Commander uses the date form defined in control panel - regional settings. Sometimes the settings can get mixed up, so Windows will report invalid settings. To fix it, change the date format to something else, click "Apply", and change it back to what you had before.

[edse]

Don't forget to press ENTER to confirm the renaming. Clicking outside the edit box as in Explorer will discard the name.

Yes, I know, Enter is this big key on the right part of the keyboard.

Sorry but your report is too vague.

It's because there is nothing of significance I could add. (for example Shift+F6 on file name, [Left], [Delete]... the edit field disappears, TC no longer has keyboard focus, sometimes the file will be deleted - that's all.)
The problem is still there on two of the systems I currently use, but the configurations on both are very similar, so it's perhaps not the failure of TC nevertheless.

Log files get no traces of the anomaly. As if there was made no attempt to edit the file name...

Never mind. You schould perhaps just ignore the problem until at least someone else encounters it, too.
And I apologise for stealing your time.


re: Date format: I spoke only and exactly about the date after the TC version number in the About box
(currently "Total Commander Version 7.50 32 bit (9.9.2009)".

best regards
edse

[ghisler(Author)]

Hmm, still no clue.

Left, Delete just deletes the last character of the name here. Do you use any macro recorder or scripting tools which may be intercepting your keypresses?

[edse]

The problem finally disappeared in TC 7.57/7.57a.

Never mind.

Best regards,
edse