Bug 66308 - Name of file is not preserved in "File - Save as" dialogue
Summary: Name of file is not preserved in "File - Save as" dialogue
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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4.0.3.3 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2013-06-28 09:35 UTC by herman.viaene
Modified: 2014-01-02 23:39 UTC (History)
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Description herman.viaene 2013-06-28 09:35:57 UTC
I have a directory containing some 40 .odt files. I do all my editing on those. After saving them I usually do another "File - Save as" where I choose html as format (to put these on a website).
I expect to save then such a document with its original name, but of course .html as suffix instead of .odt (as it worked on all previous versions).
But now as soon as I select html as type, the document name is changed to a name somwhere in the midde of the alphabetical list (in my particular case, it is always the name "niel" that gets selected.
I get a similar effect when I want to save a .ods file as a .xls file.
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2013-06-28 17:49:40 UTC
Very strange - I cannot reproduce.

Can you try resetting your profile: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Comment 2 herman.viaene 2013-06-29 07:09:39 UTC
I renamed my /home/herman/.config/libreoffice/4/user to /home/herman/.config/libreoffice/4/user.old and then opened libreoffice. The problem persists.
Comment 3 herman.viaene 2013-06-29 07:11:46 UTC
The version of LibreOffice I have is the version that came from the Mageia installation. Should I try a newer version from your site?
Comment 4 Joel Madero 2013-06-29 15:52:31 UTC
herman - usually we recommend sticking with the release from your distro's repos but in this case I would indeed suggest upgrading - if you're willing to try 4.1 RC I'd say start with that. http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/
Comment 5 herman.viaene 2013-06-30 08:57:43 UTC
Well, before running to an rc package, I first renamed again /home/herman/.config/libreoffice/4/user to /home/herman/.config/libreoffice/4/user.old and then installed your version 4.0.4 from your site. Now the problem is gone.
The report can be closed as far as I am concerned.
Comment 6 Joel Madero 2013-06-30 15:22:16 UTC
Do you happen to have that old profile still? If so are you willing to attach it here as a tar? Might give a hint to avoid other people's frustration.
Comment 7 herman.viaene 2013-07-01 07:32:43 UTC
Tar file uploaded.
I have to warn you that this old profile causes the 4.0.4 version to misbehave in a different way than the 4.0.3.3 version I had before.
The 4.0.4 version has a problem in the following way:

Open an XXXX.odt file (whatever XXXX may be)
Edit it
Use "File - save as" and select as file type html. Save.

The result is that it has created a file XXXX.odt.html instead of XXXX.html.

With the newly created profile, this does not happen in 4.0.4, because in the "File- save as" dialogue the .odt suffix in the name field gets deleted.
Comment 8 herman.viaene 2013-07-01 07:42:56 UTC
The resulting tar file (tar.gz) is 12Mb, which is refused as too large. Are there folders that I could exclude from the tar file?
Comment 9 herman.viaene 2013-07-01 08:38:06 UTC
i've uploaded the full profile at http://www.hermanviaene.be/libreofficebugs/
Plse tell me when you downloaded the file, so I can reclaim the space.
Comment 10 tommy27 2014-01-02 23:39:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Well, before running to an rc package, I first renamed again
> /home/herman/.config/libreoffice/4/user to
> /home/herman/.config/libreoffice/4/user.old and then installed your version
> 4.0.4 from your site. Now the problem is gone.
> The report can be closed as far as I am concerned.

so I mark this as RESOLVED WORKSFORME to remove it from the UNCONFIRMED list.