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File/Folder rename does not correctly highlight the name [CLOSED]

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2023 3:46 pm
by peterdian
When renaming file or folder, it does not correctly highlight the name, it stops at the first dot "." in the name, it looks like NC can't properly detect the extensions.

Re: File/Folder rename does not correctly highlight the name

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:03 pm
by mike
I can't reproduce it locally - could you provide more information?
Specific steps would be great.

Re: File/Folder rename does not correctly highlight the name

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:11 pm
by peterdian
Yes, no problem. E.g. create folder "folder.1.name this is folder" and when trying to rename the folder, it will only select the part "folder.1" and the rest is not highlighted:) Image in the attachment:)
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Re: File/Folder rename does not correctly highlight the name

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:06 pm
by mike
That's the intended behaviour - NC decomposed "folder.1.name this is folder" as filename="folder.1" and extension="name this is folder".
Upon renaming NC highlights filenames without extensions since usually they aren't changed.

Re: File/Folder rename does not correctly highlight the name

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:26 am
by peterdian
Thank you for the information, but I don't understand :shock: Folders does not have extensions, since it's folder, at least in my understanding, so it's really confusing for me. Would it be possible to have an option in the Preferences to always select the whole file name including extension, for example? That might help in this case :)

Re: File/Folder rename does not correctly highlight the name

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:59 pm
by mike
Well that is incorrect - directories absolutely can have extensions and MacOS uses them a lot.
".app" is the most prominent example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_(macOS).

Re: File/Folder rename does not correctly highlight the name [CLOSED]

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:06 pm
by peterdian
Thank you, every day I learn something new :)