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- 1 2 Chen, Raymond (22 October 2021). "Renaming a file is a multi-step process, only one of which is changing the name of the file". The Old New Thing. Microsoft.
Opening with DELETE permission grants permission to rename the file. The required permission is DELETE because the old name is being deleted.
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