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  1. Bug #15179
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Comment 4 for bug 15179

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Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad) wrote :

This is a very common problem, I have seen tens of persons saving to /tmp/.

I think it should be fixed in OpenOffice.org save as dialog. When the "File: Save as" dialog is shown:
1) Check if "Save in folder" is /tmp/ or /var/tmp/
2) If yes, change the "Save in folder" to $HOME
In Evince pdf document viewer, it is already solved like this.

In the highly unlikely (imposible?) case that user wants to store a document under /tmp, he is free to navigate to that directory.

It is most important to correct this in OpenOffice - more than 95% saves in /tmp/ I have seen are done with OpenOffice. After that, abiword could use a similar fix. For other programs I use cfengine to create warning files to temporary directories:
/tmp/_DONT_SAVE_DOCUMENTS_HERE_they_will_be_automatically_deleted
/var/tmp/_DONT_SAVE_DOCUMENTS_HERE_they_will_be_automatically_deleted