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Renaming backup job doesn't work

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It's been like this since 2015 was launched but it was more of an annoyance than a show stopper.

When you open a backup job, there is a pencil next to the name of the job, e.g. MyBackup_full_b1_s1_v1. You can edit the name but it's not saved. Change the name, go to another entry and come back and it's back to it's original value. See sshot-1, sshot-2 and sshot-3.

There is a way to edit it though - the reason that it's not saving is that clicking the pencil doesn't put the job into edit mode and thus give the option to save. You can change it by first selecting "Edit settings", changing the title and then saving. See sshot-4 and sshot-5.

So the bug is that either a) clicking the pencil should put the job into edit mode or b) the pencil shouldn't be displayed until you edit settings. Either solution is fine.

Cheers, Rob.

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Thank you for sharing. I was not aware of that limitation.

I use the pencil feature all of the time. I don't like the default names that are generated when I'm creating a New Full Backup. After I change the name and start the backup, the backup image file is prefixed with My naming convention.
All future references are made with this new name. But if your trying to rename an existing backup set, then I think the Edit command will allow you to do it, but I'm not sure because I've never done it.

This may be of interest.

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/91956