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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?
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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.
I totally agree, the files that are not on OneDrive do not have this issue.
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 .
Such a head wrecking issue. Seeing a lot of my older files named as 1.xlsx etc due to me not noticing at the time that Explorer had re-grabbed the entire file name when all I wanted to do was append a number to the end. Shocking from Microsoft
It happens in synced one drive files. Does not happen on Dropbox or pc files. Only thing I have worked out is to hit the end key and quickly put a space in then you can re edit the file name without it selecting all the text.
