I just tried this with no problem. W8.1, latest update (yesterday) latest Vegas 13. Hmm. Let me see if I got the test right. I dragged an mov file from the vegas explorer to the timeline, went back to explorer, renamed the file, clicked off it, to finalize it... no crash. file name change seemed to stick. Tried it again, same way, no crash.

DDM Are you sure you are renaming the file within "Vegas Explorer" and not the Project Media Bin? ..

You don't need to drag anything to the timeline. Just open Vegas 13. Navigate using Vegas Explorer to some files. Attempt to rename a file in Vegas Explorer.

I think I'm on the latest W8.1 and the latest V13 .. still getting a crash when renaming files in Vegas Explorer.

I was in the Explorer and not the Media bin, just tried it again, two different times, no crash.

xberk, I'm also finding that the file doesn't have to be in use. Just renaming a file in the Vegas Explorer window causes the crash, even if it's not in use by Vegas.

Also, the file does actually get renamed despite the crash.

Also I've just noticed that if I execute the filename change by clicking on another file in the Vegas Explorer window, instead of pressing <ENTER>, it doesn't crash.

But it still crashes sometimes if I click in empty space in the Explorer window to execute the change.

Pressing <ENTER> always makes it crash.

Nick .. I see the same behavior. That's a good work around to execute the filename change by clicking on another file in Vegas Explorer. Terrific.

>>>Also I've just noticed that if I execute the filename change by clicking on another file in the Vegas Explorer window, instead of pressing <ENTER>, it doesn't crash.

So I guess that's why my tests weren't crashing. I also tried right clicking and choosing "rename" and then renamed the file followed by the enter key and that didn't crash either.

I just tried it again and it seems to only crash if you click on some blank space in the explorer window, if I click on the timeline after renaming it's fine. Odd.

VP13 build 428 still has this problem.

I had a reply back from SCS that includes this...

"Because this incident involves very detailed technical aspects of the programming and design of our software, I will be consulting with our Development and QA team to try and resolve this issue.

I just tested this on two separate machines running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit and Vegas Pro 13-428. I was able to rename the files without incident multiple times. I hit the Enter key and I clicked in an open space in the Explorer window.

I have the Problem Step Recorder output files if anyone wants to see a successful outcome.

Thank you John. I will suggest that to SCS.

So far, we have 4 crashers, all on Windows 8.1, and 3 non-crashers, all on Windows 7.

I has a reply from SCS support that included this:

"Our developers and QA team were able to reproduce the issue and will be working to resolve this issue in a future update of the application."

Same issue here. I started reporting this to Sony right after I noticed they had used a completely different Windows explorer UI control in V12.

In V11, the UI control is completely different and renaming files in V11 works flawlessly.

I also got a response from Sony that they had no interest in fixing this bug that I encounter 30 times a day.

I had a thought yesterday that perhaps this bug is related to the routine that automatically renames the .sfk etc. files after the media file has been renamed. I wouldn't be surprised if that got overlooked when the updates were being coded.

Unfortunately I can't easily report this hypothesis to SCS as the support ticket is closed and marked as solved.

This bug still exists in VP13.0 build 444

Bug still exists with Windows 10, in case anyone wondered.