Openoffice KDE file dialog didn't ask to overwrite exists file

[Murz]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

How to reproduce:
1. Create new file, save it as "file.ods"
2. Close and reopen openoffice.
3. Type something, click "Save" and select already exists file "file.ods"
It overwrite this file without any warning.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 29 15:03:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-kde 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Roman,

Here is another bug for you to take a look at, this worked in the previous KDE 3 support for OOo, but apparently not for KDE 4 as the reporter mentions.

Chris

[gmud (gmud)]

I can confirm this is an issue with the PDF export and Save-As dialog in Kubuntu Karmic final.

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

Why is this bug marked as Incomplete? Here are 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.

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

This is a severe dataloss bug. I almost lost my research proposal to this just now, luckily I backed up just yesterday and only lost one day's work.

[O. Sinclair (o-sinclair)]

this is a Kubuntu bug, related to the kde filepicker. If you set Openoffice.org to use its own dialogs (menu Tools, Options, Openoffice.org, General and tick the box for "use openoffice.org dialogs" you get the expected behaviour with a warning when you try to save a file over an existing file.

[O. Sinclair (o-sinclair)]

Can we "bump" this? the file still exists and is quite severe - I have for now stopped using the kde filepicker for this reason and gone back to ugly openoffice.org dialogues

[Waleed Hamra (w-hamra1987)]

i can confirm this bug as well

[udippel (udippel)]

Just lost half a day of my work - thank you, kubuntu. :( :(

This is a very serious bug and shows how zero Kubuntu is 'ready for the desktop'. I was working on a document the whole morning until 15.00, created a new one, saved - stupid enough - under the same file name, and found the previous one gone.

Something like this must never happen, and if it does, I do expect Kubuntu to deploy a remedy at the very next day. Now they have been sitting and sleeping on this for 2 months.

Disgusted,

Uwe

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

@Roman:
What was the fix committed? Will it be updated in 9.10, or is it 10.04 only?

[Murz (murznn)]

Where I can get the committed fix? In latest updates of karmic this bug is still here!

[Murz (murznn)]

Purging and reinstalling openoffice.org-kde didn't help to solve this bug.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fixed in 10.04 with the 3.2 RC4 upload.

[Norberto Bensa (nbensa)]

No fix for Karmic then?