On 22/07/2023 11:02, Mike Scott wrote:
On 20/07/2023 00:14, Steve Edmonds wrote:
Does this still happen if you update to LO7.4?
If I open yyy.odt, and click 'Save As' the field "Name" for file name is
always blank.
On 19/07/2023 05:38, Philip Jackson wrote:
Hi :
I'm using 7.3.7.2 on UbuntuStudio and I'm always using 'save as' but I've never
had the problem you describe. Sorry.
Philip
On 18/07/2023 16:13, Mike Scott wrote:
Hi all; a very weird issue has been found by my wife, which I can repeat on a
separate machine. Both use LO 7.3.7.2 on Mint 21.
What happens is this. Take an odt file, open it in Writer then go to 'Save As'.
The expected behaviour is that the filename in the dialogue box will be filled
in and selected/highlighted and there'll be no file type appended. Eg, I open
yyy.odt, and 'Save As' displays just 'yyy' (highlighted).
However, sometimes and for no apparent reason, the dialogue box instead
displays filename and file type ('yyy.odt'), with the type (only) highlighted.
This causes issues when trying to save as a different type (eg as .docx)
(TLDR: open question at end! The details of my testing results are too long;
sorry.)
Thanks all for comments, including one off-list. Ap[ologies for not getting
back sooner - family matters intervened.
To clarify, my made-up name yyy.odt was (previously) by way of indicating what
happens, not that that was the literal file causing problems. Apologies for any
mis-direction.
I'm still none the wiser as to what's happening. I've just checked again the
environment for the files. I have a file in a directory /dhome/mike, and an
identical copy (^C ^V in a file manager) in /dhome/mike/temp of a file called
Saturday song sheet.odt
(yes - there are two spaces together there, but that's not the issue)
I close LO. Double-click on the one in the temp directory, head for File|Save
As. The filename is filled in
Saturday song sheet
and selected. No file type.
So, I close LO. Double-click on the one in the higher directory; again
File|Save As. This time, the file name and type appear;
Saturday song sheet.odt
the /type/ alone is selected.
I cannot for the life of me understand why the behaviour in the two cases
should be different.
To add to my confusion, I've just tried the following sequence of operations, starting
with the "failing" file in /dhome/mike:
make a copy and change name:
cp Saturday\ \ song\ sheet.odt yyy.odt
open yyy.odt and see that Save As prefills the file name box as "yyy.odt" with
the odt selected.
Rename and do the same again:
mv yyy.odt yy.odt
Same issue - Save As shows the name and type.
Finally, do it again:
mv yy.odt y.odt
But now y.odt opens the same, but Save As simply shows a highlighted "y" in the
file name box.
Oh, and if I rename y.odt back to yy.odt, the problem comes back. And, if I
copy yy.odt (fails) to my temp directory, all is well with the copy.
The thing is, when trying to save as .doc having the file type pre-set in the
box causes a problem - LO will try to save a .doc (or whatever) as the type
shown, and it needs manually changing. That's hazardous for someone like my
wife, and can potentially lose the original .odt file.
I've just tried a similar sequence with the same file in my "real" home
directory (/home/mike) with identical results.
**?
Does LO perhaps treat "top-level" directories in some way specially? My current guess is
that multi-character file names in a "top-level" directory are treated differently from
others. That would be very odd though, so IMBW!
Thanks for reading. I find this sort of problem hard to describe concisely. Am
I missing something obvious?
Hi Mike,
I've tried to replicate your series of moves listed in your latest email. I
even started with a file of the same name, Saturday song list.odt, and used mv
and cp as close as I could following your sequence. In every case, when I came
to 'save as' in LO Writer 7.3.7.2 in UbuntuStudio 2022LTS, only the file name
without extension was shown in the 'file name' box. I tried saving into the ~/
directory and into other lower levels.
I have been unable to replicate your case where the file name and its extension
are given in the 'save as' | 'file name box'.
I'm commonly working on Writer docs three and four levels down from the home
directory and 'save as' is one of my most common ways of duplicating a file to
provide a starter in a new directory. I've never seen the behavior you describe.
This doesn't help you, I'm afraid. Could it be something connected with your OS
version? I can't exactly recall if my LO is the UbuntuStudio distribution
version or whether I downloaded it from the LO website - I've done both over
the years. When I look where it is installed ( usr/bin/libreoffice) I would
expect I'm using the version supplied by UbuntuStudio.
Philip
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