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
    2023-06-04T13:46:59+00:00

    This problem is driving me nuts renaming files in one drive. It also drives me nuts that Microsoft provide this forum and then never reply or sort out the problems .

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-05T16:20:21+00:00

    I totally agree, the files that are not on OneDrive do not have this issue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-06T13:03:40+00:00

    This problem is driving me nuts renaming files in one drive. It also drives me nuts that Microsoft provide this forum and then never reply or sort out the problems .

    Yeah, the funny thing is that they call the forum answers.microsoft.com. But there are no answers.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-09-06T20:22:07+00:00

    So no answer to this question? I guess Microsoft gave up.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-07T10:25:14+00:00

    Yes, basically the issue is too deeply ingrained into the product, and Microsoft typically fire the core developers after the app is released because it's too expensive to keep them on full time.

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