Minor but uber helpful renaming feature request

[pseudonym]

Hello!

Long time PDF-XChange Editor user here.

I absolutely love and use, all of the time, the ability to rename (and delete too!) the PDF I'm looking at by right clicking the name in the tab and choosing the rename option.

A minor inconvenience, when I enter the new name of the PDF, if it already exists I'm notified and the dialog box closes.

Is it possible to leave the dialog box open with the new name still populated instead, when you give me the collision message? It's a minor thing, but would be so helpful to me. I often save up dozens of downloaded bills and other documents with nonsense generated names. I load them all up in PDF-XChange Editor then view and rename them one by one thanks to this great feature in PDF-XChange. Doing it this way goes pretty quick. Leaving the dialog open with my typed new name still populated would just make it a little bit faster to find a name that avoids the collision and successfully renames the document.

Thank you so much for consideration of this request.

Kind regards.

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Hi pseudonym,

I'm afraid this feature is a little niche and therefore unlikely to be approved by the development team but, as the grammar etc could also be improved in that dialog box, I'll mention your request to them at the same time as offering some general improvements to the dialog box, and let you know what they say.

Kind regards,

[pseudonym]

Thanks Sean. I disagree with you on 'niche' thought. Most products I use do what I'm asking for - they don't close the dialog box on a collision, just notify, and let the user decide to change the name, overwrite the file, or cancel out. There are several places in Windows itself where this is also the norm. Regardless, I hope it's a very simple change to make the rename function friendlier. Thanks again for consideration.
Kind regards.

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Hi pseudonym,

When I say 'niche' what I mean is that not many users have requested it in the past. Indeed, you are the only one I can recall that has requested this feature. When the development team are selecting tasks to progress to feature requests, often one of the main criteria is how much demand there is for a feature, which of course is why 'niche' requests are less likely to be successful. In any case, I have submitted the request for review, so let's see what the developers think and take it from there.

Kind regards,

[pseudonym]

Thanks Sean. Many people don't contact support if they can find a workaround get on with the task at hand. The less painful the workaround, the less likely it is to be reported. So it doesn't surprise me this is not a common request, or that "only the squeaky wheel gets the grease" due to prioritization. Nonetheless thanks for passing it on. Perhaps it will be seen as low-hanging fruit and be a quick win for those of us who use the rename feature routinely. Kind regards.

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Hi pseudonym,

Sure, that's not impossible - let's see what the development team think.

Kind regards,

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Update—a ticket has been made in relation to this issue:

Ticket #7987: Improvement for Rename Document Feature

Kind regards,

[pseudonym]

Thank you!

[Sean - PDF-XChange]