[Qgis-user] Possible bug?

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

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

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
>