Losing reference after renaming Sprite

Unity Engine
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Hi! After renaming a Sprite all references to it are lost, showing: Missing (Sprite).
Anyone else with this problem?
Thank you!

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What do you mean by renaming a sprite? Do you mean in the sprite editor?

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Same problem in Unity 4.5.2. If I rename Sprite texture in Project, my Public references in script are missing.

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I’ll pass this on to the 2d team.

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Thank you Cenda, it’s exactly that!
Thank you Tim C!

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Yup, ran into this last night as I was doing a bit of housekeeping. To follow up, renaming the referenced file back to its original filename fixes the broken reference.

This kind of flies in the face of how the rest of the editor works, in that it appears to be purely file/path-based, as opposed to tracking internal references (guid?).

To clarify, the renaming was done in editor, via the project pane, and not externally via the OS file browser.

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interesting… i never tried renaming i back again :slight_smile: kudos to you for debugging skills :wink:

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Any update in this issue? I’m using 4.5.3 and it is still happening :frowning:

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I think this is fixed in 4.5.4 / 4.6b19

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There is a 4.6b19???
wow… Wonder how I didn’t know about that… Gotta go see if I can find it… I was curious to know when we are likely to see 4.6 updates. Back when it was in beta, the 4.6.x updates were frequent and I was informed when it happens. Since it went public beta I have stopped receiving word of updates to this…

I submitted a few bugs that you guys were able to replicate so I’ve been keen to get my hands on a copy of the beta that might have those bugs fixed! So yeah thanks for the update :slight_smile: Will go look now.

Edit:
Just my luck… The project I am working on is for web players and this beta build does not support that for some odd reason… So I am still stuck on beta 17… :frowning: