"Save As" non functional

[Thomas Omerzu]

In 0.48.2, the "Save As" does not work.
Using that menu option or the key short cut simply does NOTHING, i.e. no filie selector box pops up.
This happens as well on my Win 7 Prof as on my Win XP SP3, both German.
This is always reproducible.
This bug was not present in 0.48.0.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Known issue with Inkscape 0.48.2 on Windows, triggered by opening/saving files from/to the root of a drive, tracked in
Bug #805095 "no File->Save As... dialog box if previously opened a file from root directory of a drive"
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/805095>

You can …

… download and install Inkscape 0.48.3.1 (which has this bug fixed) from
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3.1/>
(this latest bug-fix release has not yet been officially announced because we are waiting for the packages for other platforms to be available first)

… or reset the preferences to default values (quit Inkscape, delete or rename "%APPDATA%\inkscape\preferences.xml", launch Inkscape again), and avoid saving or opening files from the root of a drive as long as you work with Inkscape 0.48.2 on Windows.

… or open a file _not_ in the root of a drive via context menu of the explorer in Inkscape ('Open with Inkscape…'), save it again after a small edit, save it as (with a new file name), and save a copy as (to reset the paths stored in the preferences file for the various save operations), and after that avoid saving or opening files from the root of a drive as long as you work with Inkscape 0.48.2 on Windows.

Linking as duplicate to bug #805095 - please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues.