diff --git a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java
index 29f003f2437..7bb0a0dcb24 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/Store.java
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ public class Store extends AbstractIndexShardComponent implements Closeable, Ref
      * Renames all the given files form the key of the map to the
      * value of the map. All successfully renamed files are removed from the map in-place.
      */
-    public void renameFilesSafe(Map<String, String> tempFileMap) throws IOException {
+    public void renameTempFilesSafe(Map<String, String> tempFileMap) throws IOException {
         // this works just like a lucene commit - we rename all temp files and once we successfully
         // renamed all the segments we rename the commit to ensure we don't leave half baked commits behind.
         final Map.Entry<String, String>[] entries = tempFileMap.entrySet().toArray(new Map.Entry[tempFileMap.size()]);
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/RecoveryStatus.java b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/RecoveryStatus.java
index 61d8175741b..cacd98005f9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/RecoveryStatus.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/RecoveryStatus.java
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ public class RecoveryStatus extends AbstractRefCounted {
     /** renames all temporary files to their true name, potentially overriding existing files */
     public void renameAllTempFiles() throws IOException {
         ensureRefCount();
-        store.renameFilesSafe(tempFileNames);
+        store.renameTempFilesSafe(tempFileNames);
     }
 
     /**