Karmic: OOo overwriting existing files without prompting

Eberhard Roloff tuxebi at gmx.de
Thu Nov 5 21:26:58 UTC 2009


Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> On Thursday 05 November 2009 14:39:42 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.
>>
> 
> I can confirm this.
> gk
> 
just to give the view from the other side of the ooorg world:
The "official" openoffice from de.openoffice.org, that I 
use, behaves correctly and prompts me.

kind regards
Eberhard





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