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I am working on an Enterprise wiki site collection , and i found this strange behavior:-

  • Currently we have our home page URL as /Welcome.aspx

  • Now if I edit the home page properties and i change the welcome page name to an existing name let say WelcomeNew.aspx, I will get the following error :-

Sorry, something went wrong The specified name is already in use.

The document or folder name was not changed. To change the name to a different value, close this dialog and edit the properties of the document or folder.

  • Now if I refresh the error page I will get the following message:-

Sorry, something went wrong The file Pages/welcome.aspx has been modified by i:0#.w|tdmgroup\administrator on 29 Apr 2015 16:22:54 +0100. Technical Details

Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. Correlation ID: 3e7f019d-b8d6-f084-3eee-fba720c56a3e Date and Time: 29/04/2015 16:24:03

Then if I navigate to my site collection I will find that the welcome page became WelocmeNew.aspx instead of Welcome.aspx can anyone advice on this ?

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    Can you still see Welcome.aspx or tat got renamed?
    – Amal Hashim
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 15:29
  • now Welcome.aspx will still there, but the WelcomeNew.aspx will became the new home page,, now if i go to welcome.aspx and i set it as the home page everything will work fine,, but not sure why this is happening,, i mean if you rename ur home page to an existing name , the existing name wiki page will became the home page !!!
    – John John
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 15:38

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Here is what I found

  1. You change home page to new name
  2. SharePoint set site home page = new name
  3. Tries to change the name of actual file

I believe step#2 should have been done after #3 or there should be a rollback mechanism

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  • so it is a bug in sharepoint what do u think ?
    – John John
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 15:51
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    Yes. I think so
    – Amal Hashim
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 15:52
  • but it is good that the welcome.aspx page content did not got replaced by the welcomeNew.aspx or vice versa !!!
    – John John
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 15:58
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    Yes but it is worse if WelcomeNew.aspx doesn't exists.
    – Amal Hashim
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 15:59
  • i did not get your point what exactly you mean by " it is worse if WelcomeNew.aspx doesn't exists"
    – John John
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 16:11

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