** Bug watch added: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #74197 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74197
** Also affects: openoffice via http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74197 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Summary changed: - Users should be discouraged from editing temporary files + OpenOffice should warn users before saving in /tmp ** Description changed: 1. Open a document from the web (say from a web-based email site). 2. Edit the document, save changes. 3. Shut down the computer. 4. Turn the computer back on ... your file is gone! 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. This bug is also filed against Firefox, I copied the reproduce steps from bug #15179. + Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'openoffice'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu. -- OpenOffice should warn users before saving in /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39854 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
