GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 439929
Old file names shown momentarily when renaming a file in Nautilus
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:29:00 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/113341 "Binary package hint: nautilus Using 7.04 final. 1) Open nautilus, go to a location where there is a file you can rename 2) Suppose the old file name is NEW 3) Rename it into NEWER by selecting it, pressing F2, typing NEWER, and then pressing enter 4) For a flash, the old name NEW will be displayed before changing to NEWER Ideally, after we press enter we don't need to see the old file name again."
Actually, we're waiting for the operative system to confirm the change we made and as we're doing this async you'll notice the old name. For example when renaming over the network, eg a ftp share, you cannot be certain that the rename was completed before you get an ack from the remote system. Of course you can hack around this by forcing the new name but that doesn't feel right. So, for short; I think it's doing the best it can.
Still valid in 3.1.4.
This seems to apply to list view only.
I can reproduce this with both list view and icon view, when renaming a file over the network (ftp).
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.