[Qgis-user] Possible bug?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Sun, 23 July 2023, 5:39 pm Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-User, <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> 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
> >
>
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