Bug 87113 - save as -dialog acts as open file dialog [Hard to reproduce]
Summary: save as -dialog acts as open file dialog [Hard to reproduce]
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Reported: 2014-12-08 19:04 UTC by Wolf jung
Modified: 2016-10-10 11:12 UTC (History)
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Description Wolf jung 2014-12-08 19:04:47 UTC
Suppose I have  a.odt  and  b.doc  in some directory.
I open  a.odt  and click  save as  to convert it to  a.doc .
However,  when I choose  doc  from  the pull-down list,  the file name is changed from   a.odt  to  b.doc  instead of  a.doc .  If I do not notice this,  the unrelated file  b.doc  will be overwritten with the converted  a.odt  without a warning.

The reason seems to be that the file dialog is looking for an existing  *.doc  file instead of creating a new file with the same base name and a different ending.
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2014-12-09 01:33:39 UTC
LibreOffice 4.3.3.2 release
Ubuntu 14.04 x64

I do not see this behavior if I am understanding you correctly. What I did:

Repro Steps: 

1. New document;
2. Save as a.odt in folder temp;
3. New document;
4. Save as b.doc in folder temp;
5. Close LibreOffice;
6. Open a.odt
7. File -> Save As -> Pull Down menu .doc

You Observe:
File a.odt changes to b.doc?

I observe:

Extensions aren't even visible - I just see "a" and the extension is controlled by the drop-down.

Am I missing something? Setting to NEEDINFO as the instructions provided are a bit unclear. Once you provide reproducible steps please set to UNCONFIRMED. Thanks!
Comment 2 Wolf jung 2014-12-09 20:59:11 UTC
(In reply to Joel Madero from comment #1)
These steps are precisely what I meant.  I tried again on 2 systems and it is confusing:

* With LO 4.2.5.2 on Windows 7 the problem does not happen;  the ending is not shown at all but the new file is correct.

* With LO 4.1.6.2 on Suse Linux,  the problem does not happen in this way in a new directory.  The endings are shown,  sometimes  a.odt  is replaced with an empty string upon choosing doc,  sometimes  a.doc  comes correctly.

* In my Downloads directory with 2000 files and hundreds of  odt  and  doc , the problem happens consistenly:  for several  odt  files that I tried, the conversion always is changing the file's base name to an existing  doc  file.
The problem does not happen for conversion from  doc  to  odt .

* So I copied all  doc  and  odt  files to a new directory,  but here the problem does not appear ...
Comment 3 steve 2016-01-09 00:29:31 UTC
Is this bug still valid / reproducible with the latest LO release?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

Should this be still reproducible for you with the latest LO release please set this bug back to UNCONFIRMED. Should this issue be solved set it to WORKSFORME.

Setting to NEEDINFO until more detail is provided.
Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2016-09-11 22:00:13 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2016-10-10 11:12:28 UTC
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