Try this: 1. cd $HOME 2. touch *.xsession-errors* 3. pgadmin3 4. Connect to a database 5. Click on tables 6. Click the Execute arbitrary statements button 7. Type some text 8. Save as ... test.sql
Next: 1. Type *Alt-f* 2. Type *a* 3. Click test.sql 4. Click Save 5. Click Replace You should now receive an error that the file could not be saved (because you are saving over a directory) *OR* it will overwrite an existing file.. If the file .xsession-errors is in the same directory that you are saving, the save as routine will "randomly" select a different file to save over. I discovered this by: 1. Saving the file into */tmp*: there was no error. 2. Recreating all of the hidden "dot" subdirectories from $HOME directory into */home/temp*. 3. Saving the file into */home/temp*; there was no error. This meant that the main difference was that there are hidden "dot" files in $HOME but not in */home/temp*. (Admittedly, it could have been a combination of dot directories, dot files, the number of files, or some weird sum of name lengths issue.) I then noticed I had a 100k .xsession-errors file in $HOME that I did not need. After I deleted it, I could no longer recreate the bug. Certainly more than a coincidence. ;-) Dave
