@J-Toresen Except you can rename a file that is being used by Vegas. but it may be being used as you say by another program or some kind of VP19 temp file is getting in the way.. @Narax Clear temp files from your PC, close all other programs, check Taskmanager to see if programs like VLC are still running even though you've closed them. & maybe even restart your PC then see if it still won't rename.

This is VP21 but i just opened VP19 & it's the same.

The error message is the solution to your problem: you can't rename a file that is used by Vegas or another program. You cannot rename a word document when you edit it in word, for example.

Jøran Toresen

It used to work perfectly like 2 weeks ago but now all of a sudden it shows this error, so it is definitely possible who knows why it won't work though

@Narax It appears that you are trying to rename it in Windows Explorer and not from within Vegas while you have that Preference item ticked off that EricLNZ mentions. You can rename a file right from within Vegas. Right click on the file in Project Media, then select Rename from the pop-up menu.

@Robert Johnston I'm not sure what difference that Preference box options makes, I haven't played with it.

But you can rename a file in Windows explorer when that file is open in Vegas, prob is Vegas will give you the 'can't be found msg' , 🤔

I'm not sure what difference that Preference box options makes,

@Former user It releases Vegas's "hold" on a file so it can be worked on outside of Vegas. So you could tidy up an image file in a photo editor, then resave it, go back to Vegas and after waking it up the modified file appears.

The downside is it slows down Vegas's awakening when you return to it which is the subject of occasional complaints, the solution for that being to untick the preference.