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.