Renaming Projects

Does Unity Hub 3.0 introduce this feature?
From the changelog I see nothing about this...

 

Dear Hub Team devs, we all know how hard it is to get a full-fledged feature through the development cycle. Maybe someone could make a sneaky push with a user-unfriendly implementation for the time being? For example, make the hub look for a .unityprojectname file in the root folder of the project, read the project name from there. It can be ANSI or whatever. Don't even document it anywhere, just wink at us.

 

I'd even be happy with something manual that just cuts down the steps. Right now, if I rename any part of the hierarchy leading to my projects or if I move my projects, I have to delete the old project reference from the hub and manually re-add it. Even just changing this behavior to popping up a "Find project..." dialog (similar to what Adobe After Effects does when it can't find footage) so I could manually re-link the project WITHOUT that deletion step would remove a minor pain point and perhaps buy the Hub devs a bit more patience on this thread!

Along the same lines (like almost EXACTLY the same), since Unity is so regularly updated, when Hub finds a project's version of Unity Editor is missing, it would be great if it could look for another version of Unity Editor that's the same MAJOR revision and just ASK whether we want to update. So, for example, if I created a project in Unity 2021.1.14 and then I installed Unity 2021.1.15 and deleted the previous version (I only have so much hard drive space!), Unity Hub would offer to update the project to 2021.1.15 WITHOUT me having to manually select the new version.

These are really small tweaks that could make the Hub experience WAY less annoying.

: commences holding breath :

 

september 2021, still no option to rename project from the hub. this is ridiculous

 

October 2021 atill no option

 

Okay guys, I figured out a hacky solution for Windows how to rename Unity projects in the Unity Hub app. We achieve this not by renaming Unity projects per-se, but using a hack to rename the folder it resides in on the disk.

First, you need to install the Link Shell Extension. Here is a direct download link for your convenience: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/HardLinkShellExt_X64.exe

Second, create your Unity project where you want it to, giving it the desired project name. It can reside inside a Plastic SCM sync folder.

Third, right-click on the Unity project folder and select "Pick Link Source".

Fourth, right-click on empty space right next to the Unity project folder, then choose "Drop as..." -> "Symbolic Link".

Fifth, rename the symbolic link to what you want.

Sixth, hide the original Unity project folder, but not its subfolders nor files.

Seventh, insert the original Unity project folder path into the Plastic SCM ignore.conf file, if it happens to reside inside the sync directory. Plastic SCM is able to sync the Unity project through the dynamic link.

RESULT: You have a Unity project using the desired project name in the Unity Hub, while on disk the project appears to reside in a differently named folder, which also syncs properly through Plastic SCM.

Note: The Plastic SCM sees the symbolic link as a regular folder, so that when the project is being pulled to other devices, Plastic will create a regular folder to put the Unity project stuff in if it does not already exist. Just rename the folder to the desired Unity project name and repeat the process described above to recreate the dynamic link for each device.

 

Just tested HUB 3.1 Long waited Rename Feature

And this is absolute nonsense

Do Unity think that we wait few years be able to rename project folder not from explorer/finder?

Current nonsense kills repository structure and is not what we waiting for! Unity!
We need renaming that will not rename any folder!!!

 

Please Unity just NEVER touch this

 

Wait, they added renaming projects by renaming the folder?
... ugh. Point missed entirely.

It can't be so hard!

 

Name in project settings is good and needed
But for case of few copies of same repo just for different platforms it will not work so my suggestion is:

use product name as @Orion sad + some postfix that only hub will know and we can easily change.
$"{productName} - {hubPostfix}"

So we can have in hub:
My Best Game Ever - Client Android
My Best Game Ever - Client 1 Windows
My Best Game Ever - Client 2 Windows
My Best Game Ever - Server Linux

May be just store this hubPostfix there:
ProjectFolder/
hubPostfix.txt <--- just file with text string
Assets
Library
ProjectSettings

 

bump - the beta renaming was removed not long after it was introduced, judging by the changelog. Would really like this feature, though given the amount of bumps in this thread I'm sceptical that it'll ever happen...

 

I think it'll ever happen. I got tired of waiting and made my own launcher:

 

Cmon! Please, implement the renaming feature! Working with multiple branches if you use Perforce is a mess also most of the projects have a subfolder named just "Unity" or "Client."

 

Please implement this feature, I really need this feature. Please...

 

I've posted a possible solution for Windows users, using NTFS Directory Links, in this thread.

 

A solution like this has already been suggested by Aspenforest above. I don't think it's a very pretty solution to something that should be really simple to implement.

 

Bump - please please please implement this EASY feature in the CORRECT way! It wouldn't even be a breaking change. Hell, give me access and I'll do it for you!

 

You already have the same name 3 times

Highlight folder name in right column, so you have that folder name old behavior, and make project name show Project name from ProjectSettings or CustomName if specified in hub it is so easy

 

How is this still a thing 5 years later? Bump...

 

Unity Hub changed so much but they still haven't added the option to rename projects. Wow.