I just tried it in an "emacs -Q" window. Did a dired of my Users home 
directory and there did an R of an existing file to "newname".  The line 
containing the file disappeared.

In other words: "emacs -Q" made no difference: the problem remains.

-Bernie


Eli Zaretskii wrote at 13:46:

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>>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:56:27 -0400
>>From: Bernard Stumpf <bernard.stumpf@verizon.net>
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>>As I stated before, I did not observe this problem on an IBM Thinkpad 
>>running Windows XP Pro SP3.
>>Now I'm using a Toshiba Satellite P740 running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
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>I tried on Windows 7, and didn't see the problem.
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>>The problem has shown up on every rename in a dired buffer on this machine.
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>Strange, it doesn't happen for me.  Do you see that in "emacs -Q"?
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