Elements Organizer 2024 and file renames

I created a new catalog and deleted the old one.

I renamed approx 80 files and opened Organizer which began to 'reconnect files'. On checking the folder with the renamed files Organizer was showing the renamed files without issue.
I can only assume there was an issue with my original catalog.

BTW, I just did a test too.  I found that if I renamed in File Explorer a file that is in an Organizer watched folder, the newly named file will be "found" but it will not be imported again.  Instead, when I accepted the invitation to import the found file, the existing file name was updated to the new name.  So, the Organizer is in fact smarter than some may think.

ALL file operations (rename, move, delete) must be conducted in the Organizer if you want to keep your catalog intact.  However, as @Monte307  has advised, it should be a fairly easy job to reconnect what the Organizer believes are missing files, particularly if you have not moved them to different folders.

After further investigation it appears to be that Organizer doesn't automatically update thumbnails - you have to do this manually which appears to be a strange way of managing file renames. Hopefully someone from Adobe will respond and confirm whether or not this is the only way of effectively coping with file renames.