How do you rename a folder?

Kinda of a simple question…

Inside Unity, under Projects tab…

Whenever I create a folder in the projects directory it gets named “New Folder”, and try as I might I cannot discover how one goes about renaming it…

My workaround has been to create the folder in the OS directly…

Is there a way rename folders within Unity?

Thanks

double click the folder name?

Double clicking the folder name does not do anything for me…

But after you mentioned that I tried banging on my keyboard while having the folder selected… and it eventually went into rename mode.

Seems I have to click on folder, and then hit Enter on keyboard to rename it…

This is on a Mac, perhaps that was why this is all funky.

Click the folder, Hit the F2 key type the name you want :slight_smile:

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Press F2 can’t to solve u’r problem ?!

It’s the exact same way you rename things in the Finder or anywhere else. (i.e., either click-wait-click again–not double-click–or press return.)

–Eric

Yeah, just click the folder and leave the mouse around for a sec, the folder name becomes editable.
Sometimes when you make a new folder or duplicate an object you can’t rename it immediately for some reason though.

I couldn’t rename the projects folder. I tried every options but the problem still continuing. Rigth click also isn’t work. There is no option to rename. Did I changed the settings of the program or something like that? (I’m beginner :smile: )

Have the same problem, and go figure, I’m a beginner too :slight_smile:

Slow double-click is universal rename.

I managed to do it, after I dragged a file inside the folder. I used slow double-click, this time with a better timing, I think.

I think this is confusing to some because you need to slowly double-click the TEXT under the folder’s icon (I’m using the tiled view, not list). If you slowly double-click the icon, nothing happens. Normally I wait about 0.5-1 sec between clicks and it works fine.

This might be a bug in 5.6. i never had a problem in 5.5 now clicking on a file or folder you can’t rename it. I have both versions installed, might be that. Only work around is to right click and open explorer.

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Rebooted unity working now ;p

It is an infrequent, hard to replicate, yet annoying bug.

Moving the folder to be a subfolder does work sometimes, and failing that a reboot usually resolves it for me.

It has been around since Unity 2.x as I recall…

F2 key is working fine for renaming assets in windows 8.
I’m using Unity 2017.1

Lmfao, WTF!

right click file >Click show in explorer > Right click folder > Select rename.

This was on a PC running windows 10.

Can’t even rename a folder without pain and suffering. I’m about to go back to unreal engine.

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It’s 2018, why isn’t there a context menu option for duplicating and renaming files?

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I added a feedback item that you can vote here. please vote!

https://feedback.unity3d.com/suggestions/rename-file-or-folder-in-project-view-in-the-context-menu

Found a walk around - change the name of the folders in windows and it will change it in Unity as well.