Comment 12 for bug 715869

Hope it's ok to bump some at this bug. After all it's almost three years since first reported.

Working with version 0.48+devel r12217 several times during a week. The bug is still present. This day I just lost a source image file because Inkscape did "export to PNG and overwrite the original file, when it should have asked for a filename to save as", wich resulted about an hour and a half wasted.

In the mentioned version of Inkscape, If closing Inkscape before saving, and if user choose to save he file, there will be a message that tell the user to save the file in svg format, but what actually happens is that the imported PNG file is overwritten and corrupted.
That is a bad thing, you have to know about this bug to avoid data loss!

Is there any workaround makin my png files safe from being overwritten by Inkscape, other than make them write protected?

That said - most of the time I'm aware of the danger of accidentally loss of png files, so having this kind of accident is fortunately a rare event. The true is, it's a bug that I can live with, but I would like to see it busted.