Renaming a doc in the Mac Finder prevents it from opening in OnlyOffice

Desktop editors
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When I renamed an OnlyOffice doc in the Mac Finder, I could no longer open the doc in OnlyOffice,

Since OO doesn’t (afaik) provide a way to rename files, how can one rename an OO doc without being confronted with this?

Thanks.

(Also, shouldn’t the OO file listing conform automatically to any filename changes in the Finder? )

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Hello @mk7z

This is expected behavior, because Desktop Editor does not have direct access to the file manager.
Personally, I’d simply rename the file and open it right away, that way new name is remembered.

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I’ve forgotten which file the one I wrote about was, but do you mean I will have to go back and rename it in the Finder to whatever filename OnlyOffice previously had in order to open it in OO?

What happens if I can’t remember the file’s original filename?

Also, I’ve just tried to open another file in OO and got this error message, which may have been the same one I got re: the one above-referenced document:

"File can not be open.
File <path/filename> can not be open or not exist."

But in the Finder the filename is exactly the one that OO is claiming can’t be opened or doesn’t exist.

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@Constantine… Maybe I’m misunderstanding what the native file listing in OO actually is.
Is it just a cue sheet for files the user has opened in OO from (if on a Mac) the Finder?

In other words, does nothing the user does to a filename in the native file listing affect the same actual files as they exist in the Finder?

Example, if the user deletes (or renames) a file in OO’s file listing, it has no effect on the file that’s in the Finder?

Thanks.

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No, each renaming modifies the file, Desktop Editor will not recognize the file, who’s name has been changed to new one and then back to the old one. Editor is not responsible for managing your documents, it is used to edit them. All file management such as, for instance, file location or name, has nothing to do with the editor, system file manager works with it and editor simply relies on that information. If the information was changed, system does not inform the apps about that, hence Desktop Editor cannot find the file, so there is nothing I can suggest to you to avoid it.

Recents section is a simple interface that has internal system symlinks to files.

There are no options to rename or delete file in Desktop Editors’ Recents screen, so you cannot do either of those from the app.

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Thanks. If I understand you correctly, renaming a file in the Mac Finder that’s already in the “Recent” files/documents list in OO has no effect on the actual file. The filename that’s already in the “Recent” list just becomes null and void, and the same file (now with a different filename) would just have to be reopened in OO to continue editing it in OO.

Is that correct?

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Yes, this is how it works in many apps.