Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

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)
> >
> > Even more odd is that simply copying  (^C, ^V in a file manager) a 
> > wrongly-behaving file to a different directory can change the behaviour.
> >
> > I wondered if my wife had managed to include some weird character, but
> > the filename /looks/ kosher: 'ls -1 | od -cb' shows nothing untoward. 
> > And indeed, one or two of my own files show the same behaviour. (I 
> > rarely use 'Save As' anyway.)
> >
> >
> > I'm at a bit of a loss about where to check next. Has anyone else 
> > experienced this please and can say what's happening?
> >
> > TIA.


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