On Sun, 23 July 2023, 5:39 pm Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-User, < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Roxo, > > You are right, I can confirm this with a very recent build of QGIS: > > - with extension we ask for confirmation of overwriting > - without extension we silently overwrite an old file > It's actually an operating system (well, gtk library) issue. The same thing happens in other apps too on that same platform. Nyall > Please file an issue (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues), this seems > easily fixable. > See > https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/bugreporting.html#bugs-features-and-issues > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > > On 7/22/23 20:21, Fernando M. Roxo da Motta via QGIS-User wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Today I was exporting some QGis projects as PNG images > > (project>import/export>export map to image). At certain point I made > > a mistake and repeated the name of the previous map, and QGis happily > > overwrote the previous image, without asking before. I tried to repeat > > the action giving the full name of the file (map10.png) and QGis asked > > for confirmation. The difference was that the first time I gave jjust > > a name, without the "extension" .png. > > > > It seems that even if QGis will give the default "extension" to the > > filename, it does not verify the prior existence of the file after it > > attach the "extension". > > > > This was in a QGis 3.26.0 on Linux Xubuntu 20.04. I know that both > > the QGis and system are kind of old, but if this "feature" is present > > in current versions it can be cumbersome. > > > > > > > > Roxo > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-User mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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