Karmic: OOo overwriting existing files without prompting

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 18:33:56 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:39 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In Kubuntu 9.10 OOo will overwrite files without prompting for
> confirmation. Please test this and confirm. Steps to reproduce:
> 1) Create new file in OOo Writer, save it as test.odf
> 2) Close OOo
> 3) Open a new instance of OOo Writer and create a new file. Save it as test.odf
> 
> What happens:
> OOo saves over the old file without prompting for confirmation.
> 
> What I expect to happen:
> OOo would identify that the file test.odf exists and would prompt the user.

It doesn't create an *~ backup file?? 


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