why can’t you change a file name while said file is open?
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Firstly, this “limitation” is bound to Windows. Windows deeply identifies files by their path and name, the Mac operating system using a geekier Identifier for the file, so the name is more of a piece of metadata that is important to users, but not to the bowels of software.
Sos..if you were to rename the file an open application that went to save said open file would either freak out because it wasn’t there, or more likely create a new file. Because that would be an unusual behavior, the action is prevented.
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