diff --git a/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/renameUsageFinder.ts b/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/renameUsageFinder.ts
index c78244c5f..3aaa16eaf 100644
--- a/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/renameUsageFinder.ts
+++ b/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/renameUsageFinder.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-/**
- * visitor that looks for imports of an old file path and creates {@link TextEdit}s to update them for the new file path
- */
-
 import { TextEdit } from 'vscode-languageserver-types';
 import { ModuleNameNode, NameNode, ParseNodeType } from '../parser/parseNodes';
 import { ParseTreeWalker } from './parseTreeWalker';
@@ -14,6 +10,9 @@ import { TextRange } from '../common/textRange';
 import { ModuleType, TypeCategory } from './types';
 import { Program } from './program';
 
+/**
+ * visitor that looks for imports of an old file path and creates {@link TextEdit}s to update them for the new file path
+ */
 export class RenameUsageFinder extends ParseTreeWalker {
     edits: TextEdit[] = [];
     private _oldModuleName: string;
diff --git a/packages/pyright-internal/src/languageServerBase.ts b/packages/pyright-internal/src/languageServerBase.ts
index 0fec7a0ac..36e353054 100644
--- a/packages/pyright-internal/src/languageServerBase.ts
+++ b/packages/pyright-internal/src/languageServerBase.ts
@@ -1156,9 +1156,16 @@ export abstract class LanguageServerBase implements LanguageServerInterface, Dis
             }
             const workspace = await this.getWorkspaceForFile(newUri);
             const program = workspace.service.backgroundAnalysisProgram.program;
+
+            // if the uri being renamed is not part of the workspace, don't bother
+            if (!program.containsSourceFileIn(oldUri)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            const oldFileContents = program.getParseResults(oldUri);
             workspace.service.getUserFiles().forEach((file) => {
                 const currentFileParseResults = program.getParseResults(file);
-                const oldFile = program.getParseResults(oldUri) ?? oldUri;
+                const oldFile = oldFileContents ?? oldUri;
                 if (currentFileParseResults && workspace.rootUri && program.evaluator) {
                     const importFinder = new RenameUsageFinder(program, currentFileParseResults, oldFile, newUri);
                     importFinder.walk(currentFileParseResults.parserOutput.parseTree);
diff --git a/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/languageServer.test.ts b/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/languageServer.test.ts
index b65b57720..99f0117b5 100644
--- a/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/languageServer.test.ts
+++ b/packages/pyright-internal/src/tests/languageServer.test.ts
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ describe(`Basic language server tests`, () => {
                 const result = await serverInfo.connection.sendRequest(
                     WillRenameFilesRequest.type,
                     {
-                        files: [{ oldUri: 'file:///src/foo/bar', newUri: 'file:///src/foo/bar2' }],
+                        files: [{ oldUri: marker.fileUri.toString(), newUri: 'file:///src/foo/bar2.py' }],
                     },
                     CancellationToken.None
                 );