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hesto2
hesto2

Reputation: 315

Can't rename files, or name new files that have the letter "O"

I had this on just my windows machine at first so I figured it was a local issue, but now I'm seeing it on my mac as well. I am trying to rename a folder or a file but anytime I press the "O" key while naming it, it instead types nothing but rather opens/closes the folder I'm renaming. How do I fix this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5110

Answers (1)

RBT
RBT

Reputation: 25935

I was also facing exactly same issue. In my case it was happening for any name and not just letter O. On pressing F2 I could type a new name but on pressing Enter, it would have no effect at all.

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It would continue showing up the old directory name. Visual Studio (VS) Code doesn't throw any error to suggest why it was happening. Then I realized that I was running an NPM server from the same root folder HELLO-WORLD. So the NPM server process might have been using the test directory(within HELLO-WORLD folder) that I was trying to rename.

When I tried to rename the same folder from Windows Explorer then it gave me the actual error that the directory was in use by some process. I stopped the NPM server and it got resolved. Thereafter, I was able to rename the directory from VS Code as well.

Upvotes: 3

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