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Hi, I have to report a HUUUUUUGE monster bug in
Nautilus 2.24.1
Ubuntu 8.10 up to date as of 3/30/09

with regards to saving an image.

the problem is that it will happily overwrite an image even if the
"user" tells it to save the image with a different name, IF the target
file was original selected from the "recent files" list.

Try this.

1-View a page on the web that has a jpeg, thusly:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/focusman55/3398649768/

2-right-click on the image, save it to your desktop.

3-find the image on the desktop, double-click it, it will open in a
viewer. Close the image. The image should now be at the top of the
"recent documents" list. Check this by going to the places menu and then
"recent-documents", the top entry should open to the same image.

4-save the image (or any other image) again, the same way, but this time
in the "save image" dialog click on "recently used" in the left part and
click on the top entry in the list, on the right side. You should see
the picture on the right (in a thumbnail viewer) and the filename at the
very top in the file-box. Click on the name and *change the name* in the
filename dialogbox, then hit alt-s to save the file with that name.

Right?

Wrong.

You just overwrote the original image, that you clicked on in the
"recent documents" list.

Try it again, this time using the "desktop' link on the left side, then
clicking on the image-file, then changing the name in the "filename"
dialog. Hit alt-s or save. Now you have a new file with that name
containing the image that you want to save.

As long as you select an entry in the "recently used" file list just
before saving, you will overwrite that file, regardless of whatever you
have set the "filename" dialog to. Not only will it save the file with
that name regardless of whatever you put in, it will save it in that
*directory* (which was the point of my using the "recently used" list in
the first place).

How's that for a quick & easy way to lose a few days worth of work?

** Affects: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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file save-as bug in Nautilus 2.24.1
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/352105
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