Rename File

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
January 30, 2018
6 replies
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This is very frustrating. I can't even rename a file. I only have Bridge open, I both tried to click the file name and right click>rename file.

Adobe Bridge warning pops up:

The process cannot access the files because it is being used by another process.

I've experienced this with Windows with the preview pane having "access" to the file but even if I close the preview pane, it still doesn't work.

Help.

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Joeyndot

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same thing stil happening to me, 5 years later. nothing else is open that would be using the files. i don't understand what could possibly be the issue.

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Marky Mark Marino

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I can't believe this is still a bug in Bridge. I remember running into this years ago and trying again today to rename some WAV files within Bridge gives the same error. Unfortunately Windows File Explorer doesn't allow you preview audio files for some ridiculous reason, so I was trying to do the same thing as the OP was trying to do. Using a locked down corporate laptop, so no 3rd party utilites to work around this issue. If Bridge is using another process to do the audio preview, it should be smart enough to stop it's own process to allow renaming the files. C'mon Adobe.

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Marky Mark Marino

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Just to follow-up, you CAN preview audio in Windows File Explorer, but you have to make sure that "Windows Media Player Legacy" is set as the default app to open your audio files. Foolishly I had the default set to Audition.

Ash Mills Photography

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I also intermittently get this issue. No other apps open, working on clearing out folders of junk and renaming them when completed, sometimes one folder just will not "let go" of being "used" even though I am not.

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_jeffersondonald

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Were you able to get this to work? I'm using MacDrive on a Windows 10 PC and I am unable to rename the files in Adobe Bridge. I can rename the files on the drive itself using Windows Explorer and can rename files on the PC that are not on a Mac-formatted drive in Adobe Bridge without a problem. The combination of using Adobe Bridge and files on a Mac-formatted drive is preventing me from renaming those files in Bridge.