I’ve just started to learn Unity after years of working with GameMaker but I’ve hit a bump in the road a little earlier than expected!
Whenever I create a new asset it is automatically given the name New Material/Object etc. and I’m unable to rename it. I’ve tried everything that I’ve seen people mention in similar threads, doing the delayed left-double-click, pressing F2, hitting enter. The only way I’ve found that I can rename anything is by renaming the files themselves in the OS, which seems like it’s definitely not the right way to be doing it!
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’m running v5.6.2 off of a clean install.
when you rename stuff sometimes you have to hit enter/return then it saves. If you type then simply click else where it doesn’t save the new text. Maybe this will help? Also if it’s a prefab. I found just yesterday maybe. I had to make a new prefab with the new name instead of just renaming the prefab. I might be wrong with that though haha. With practice you’ll get hang of Unity I feel. I’ve still some way to go myself.
I’m not even getting to point of being able to edit the name at all, let alone getting it to save it haha. I understand normally you’d double click on the name and then get the textbox up and be able to enter a new name, but I’m struggling to get to that point!
left click once on the name and then click again not to quick but enough for the item to know your double clicking on it, I tried this on a material and it lets me change the name from clicking left mouse button on it twice.
Check some unity vids out also and try find a moment where someone changes the name of something. You’ll be able to work it out this way to. I’m sorry your having difficulty doing this. It shouldn’t be to much of an issue to get around. Best of luck.
This renaming thing seems like a bug in unity Editor.
I have the same issue and it works only for a while after restarting the editor.
Then I’m back to square one.
I have done this 100s of times and the same result is back at me.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!!
Hi, I have the same problem here, I can’t rename anything from the editor at all…right click and then click on rename and nothing happens…clicking the file also do nothing…I’m reporting this to Unity but I think this won’t be resolved in the right away…so the only thing here is to rename it through searching the file in your computer
Just encountered this issue, seems like editing anything in the project is disabled. I wonder if there’s some kind of “project lock” feature that is being enabled unknowingly.
