Accidentally erasing file name using Browser

Surely I'm not the only one who's done this.  Using the Browser, I thought I was grabbing an audio clip to drag into a project.  I was going for a .wav file from a different Sonar project - But what I did by accident was highlight the name, and when I clicked again, naturally the name disappeared, and I was left with a file just called ".wav"- The clip played fine in the project, but obviously I had to fix what happened, since the audio clip was originally associated with a different project.

Not being positive what the original name was, I opened that project, and when the missing audio dialogue came up, I copied the name of the "missing" file - then went to that project's audio folder and pasted in the proper name for that file again.

Yikes!- I was just moving too fast when I grabbed and accidentally erased the file name, but maybe this mistake is too easily made?  Why even have the ability to re-name things in the browser? - But that's probably just standard Windows behavior that could be impossible to over-ride.

I think the only advice on this is - be careful grabbing your clips!

Randy

You can rename files in an explorer window by left click selecting the file to highlight it, pause for a second, then Left clicking on the file a second time to put it into rename mode. The Sonar browser behaves the same way. If you pause long enough between the clicks of a double click, both windows and sonar think you want to rename the file.

In the explorer window you can hit escape to cancel the rename, or ctrl-z to undo the rename. I don't know if that holds true in the Sonar browser.

You can adjust the time between clicks for a double click in the windows mouse options.

gswitz
 
Come to think of it, using Windows to make all the files read-only would probably do the trick. That simple step could be part of the default install as well. Users who want to rename the Sonar Content could always go into windows and uncheck the read only indicator.

That's a really good idea.
 
FYI - ctrl-z doesn't seem to work in this situation...

Scook, I was about to go do some tests to answer a bunch of your queries, but ... I'm on Linux. ;-)
 
I don't think running as Admin would change the rename failure of a read only file.
 
Directories outside of cakewalk content wouldn't be protected unless the user set the content to read only. Cake would pretty easily put a switch in the browser to make it easy to flip read-only on and off easily.

Perhaps rename should be a right click menu item only.