Cursor moves to left or selects all text when renaming files in windows explorer. Windows 11

Anonymous
2022-02-01T15:12:11+00:00

Hi,

I am struggling with a new issue in File Explorer. I have recently updated to Windows 11, but I think this issue has started since this version update.

When I try to rename a file or folder in Windows file explorer, I am unable to place my cursor at a particular point in the filename - eg to insert some letters or numbers.

Instead, wherever I place my cursor, within a second, the whole file name has been selected, which means I start typing a new filename from scratch. This is different to how it has previously behaved, and very annoying.

A related issue - when I am renaming a file saving a file from within a program, a slightly different issue occurs. I put my cursor at the end of a filename, eg,to add a new version number to the filename, but the cursor jumps to the left - to the start of the filename.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-20T07:10:14+00:00

    Whatever they believe is causing this, it is still a bug, and they should focus on fixing it. It is their operating system, their OneDrive, their File Explorer. Incredible that such a bug is allowed to exist.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-29T00:33:14+00:00

    It's definitely OneDrive. With Windows 11, I have this problem when renaming OneDrive files. On other files, I do not have this problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-30T10:43:02+00:00

    Yeah it's OneDrive for sure. These issues only started when I moved accross to it. It's also absolutely terrible atactually syncing files between computers. In a lot of cases, I have to put a dummy file into a folder for it to realise that someone else has put multiple files in. I create the dummy file, all of a sudden it updates correctly.

    I'm moving back to DropBox.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-31T20:56:04+00:00

    I have the same "jump-to-left" File name (naming) issue. I test with OneDrive doing active backups and when stopped; no difference (still error). This sucks!! Best workaround for me, after jump, add any character (this seems to stop the trigger), then rename as expected (like is should do).

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-02T21:26:47+00:00

    I'm having this aggrivating issue under Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 11 21H2.

    It is most aggrivating when trying to save a variation of a file.

    For example, saving a variant of itcc-01.png, I manually select the "1"

    itcc-01.png

    Before I can type "2" the cursor will deselect the 1 and leap to the left front resulting in

    2itcc-01.png rather than itcc-02.png

    Over time this becomes more and more infuriating.

    I do use OneDrive.

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