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                 Issue #|109862
                 Summary|Misleading UI messages
               Component|Database access
                 Version|OOO310m19
                Platform|All
                     URL|
              OS/Version|All
                  Status|UNCONFIRMED
       Status whiteboard|
                Keywords|
              Resolution|
              Issue type|DEFECT
                Priority|P3
            Subcomponent|none
             Assigned to|dbaneedsconfirm
             Reported by|cpks





------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sat Mar  6 01:36:21 +0000 
2010 -------
This is a user interface issue. Suppose I have a .odb file XYZ open in 
OpenOffice Base. I want to make some changes, but in case I want to back out of 
them, I want a backup copy. So I copy my .odb file to XYZ1.odb. I want to be 
sure that XYZ1.odb never gets scribbled on, so I can go back to it if necessary.

Now I edit a form in XYZ.odb (confident, so far, that if I make a mistake, XYZ1 
will be a source of recovery). I make changes (spending (and this is true...) 
hours over them.) Then I click "save" and up comes the message: "OK to save 
XYZ1?" So I think "Aaargh! No! I don't want to scribble on my precious backup!" 
so I click "cancel" and all my work is lost. I try again, waste more hours, and 
lose still more work... and then I begin to realize what is going on...

Had I renamed my backup "XYZ2.odb" none of this would ever have happened. But 
still: is this kind of thing really useful/necessary/helpful?

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