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Adding game changes the name of exe file.

  • January 29, 2026
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I had issues with getting Synapse 4 to switch profiles like it should only for one game and I found the culprit.

So the game the profiles wasn’t switching for was Classic WOW and the issue was the following:
Upon adding the game to Synapse it changed the name from what it was(ClassicWow.exe) to ClassicWoW.exe and that completely bricked the auto switching. It started working after I changed the .exe to match the Synapse name. This however causes issues when the game updates the exe file and changes the name back to what it is supposed to be.

I have two questions.
Why is the program renaming the .exe file in the first place?
Why is your program case sensitive in the file path when no duplicate names for files are allowed to exist when Windows doesn’t care about upper or lower case?

Please, for the love of all that is holy just make it so Synapse isn’t case sensitive and make it so it doesn’t arbitrarily change the name of the files for games you add.