I found a reproducible Save As issue in Fender Studio Pro on macOS and have already submitted it to Fender Support.
Normally, I keep several .song files in the same working folder so they can share the same Media, History and Cache structure.
With an ASCII-only parent folder, Save As works normally:
Project_CS_TEST/test.song
However, if I rename the exact same parent folder to:
Project_ÇŞ_TEST
and perform File > Save As > test2.song, Studio Pro creates:
Project_ÇŞ_TEST/test2/test2.song
instead of the expected:
Project_ÇŞ_TEST/test2.song
I tested this several ways:
While inspecting an affected Song, I also noticed that visually identical path components could appear in composed/decomposed Unicode representations. That makes a Unicode path-normalization/comparison issue a possibility, although I cannot confirm the internal cause.
Current workaround:
Use ASCII-only names for the parent/project folder, for example:
Project_CS_TEST
Song filenames themselves can still contain Turkish characters based on my testing.
I have reported the issue to Fender Support.
If anyone using another language or character set can reproduce this with accented or other non-ASCII characters in the parent folder name, it would be useful to add your results here. That may help determine whether this is Turkish-specific or a broader Unicode path-handling issue.
Normally, I keep several .song files in the same working folder so they can share the same Media, History and Cache structure.
With an ASCII-only parent folder, Save As works normally:
Project_CS_TEST/test.song
However, if I rename the exact same parent folder to:
Project_ÇŞ_TEST
and perform File > Save As > test2.song, Studio Pro creates:
Project_ÇŞ_TEST/test2/test2.song
instead of the expected:
Project_ÇŞ_TEST/test2.song
I tested this several ways:
- Same Song, same folder contents, same Save As operation.
- ASCII parent folder → works correctly.
- Parent folder containing Turkish characters such as Ç / Ş → unwanted subfolder is created.
- Unicode characters in the Song filename itself do not appear to cause the problem. For example, ğüşıöü.song saves correctly when the parent folder is ASCII-only.
- Folder permissions were verified as Read & Write.
While inspecting an affected Song, I also noticed that visually identical path components could appear in composed/decomposed Unicode representations. That makes a Unicode path-normalization/comparison issue a possibility, although I cannot confirm the internal cause.
Current workaround:
Use ASCII-only names for the parent/project folder, for example:
Project_CS_TEST
Song filenames themselves can still contain Turkish characters based on my testing.
I have reported the issue to Fender Support.
If anyone using another language or character set can reproduce this with accented or other non-ASCII characters in the parent folder name, it would be useful to add your results here. That may help determine whether this is Turkish-specific or a broader Unicode path-handling issue.