Rename any Unity entity fails

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Hi Guys,

I'm new to Unity. I have installed the free version on Windows VISTA Ultimate SP2 and have quickly picked up a good understanding of the GUI.

However, I am unable to rename any of the different entities I create (materials, scripts etc.).

Two slow clicks on the name field opens it for editing, as does F2 on the keyboard, but when I type in the new name it reverts to the original name.

I have read the couple of posts on renaming and understand this is an operating system functionality, rather than a Unity functionality.

My hard drive is NTFS format. I do not have this problem with renaming files and folders in Explorer.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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It is actually Unity functionality; it's merely mimicking OS behaviour. If you try to give an object a name that already exists, it will revert. It needs to be a unique name.