https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95701
Bug ID: 95701
Summary: "Save As" fail to save, asks irritating unnecessary
questions instead
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.0.2.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: helge.haft...@hist.no
1. Open a .docx attachment from thunderbird. Get a write-protected view.
Ok so far, nothing bad yet.
But I want to save a local copy for editing. Naturally, I use "save as"
2. File->Save As
A big dialog show up. It suggests a filename I won't use, and a wrong
directory. Ok so far, libreoffice cannot yet know where I want to store this,
or what name I want.
3. Change the "name" field from "SomeName" to directory/subdirectory/myname
I am sure the directory names are correct, for I used tab-completion. Very nice
feature that. (I just type "dir"<TAB> and get "directory/" automatically.
So far all is well...
4. Press the "save"button (not "cancel") to actually do this.
At this point, I expected the document to be saved. Instead, a slightly
annoying question if I want to use ODF format. It'd be better if this was part
of the "save as" dialog.
But, that is a very minor annoyance. And the ODF format is ok with me, so:
5. click "Use ODF format".
Now I REALLY expect the document to be saved! In the directory I specified
(with nice help from the save dialog), with the name I specified, and no
further questions or silliness.
But here libreoffice fails me! It does not save the document as specified,
instead it pops ut the "save" dialog? WTF? The "save" dialog has the new name
I specified, and NOT the subdirectory I specified.
And why did I get a dialog at all, at this point? No other software do that to
me. Everywhere else, when I "save as", the document is indeed "saved as"
whatever path/name I specified.
The way I see it, this is a bug i9n the user interface. (A programming bug if
it indeed wasn't meant to be like that - or a design bug if this somehow is
deliberate.) I can NOT see any use for the "save" dialog at this point in time.
I have already entered a path and a filename - AND the document format (ODF)
too. There is nothing more for me to tell libreoffice, so libreoffice should
not ask any more, but just DO WHAT I ALREADY TOLD IT TO DO.
If I cancel this extra "save" dialog, then nothing is saved.
If I press "save", the document is wrongly saved to my home folder. NOT the
folder I specified explicitly - and which libreoffice even helped me to find.
So not only am I annoyed by an unnecessary dialog, there is also information
loss. I did specify a subdirectory, but this was forgotten when the unnecessary
"save" dialog came up.
I can work around this in a number of ways (by moving the file to its correct
place using the "mv" command), so the bug is not critical. But irritating
nonetheless.
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