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

Just out of curiosity, at any time did you receive a "Confirm File 
Format" window and unchecked the "Ask when not saving in ODF or default 
format" dialog?

An error in this function might react oddly, even though unlikely.


On 7/24/23 11:21, Mike Scott wrote:
> On 22/07/2023 19:03, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> > I have just opened an older file, sometimes the file Name field is 
> > not blank when I "Save As" with older files until I edit and re-save.
> > This time the full name with extension does show. If I open Writer to 
> > an Untitled document and "Save As" the Name field is pre-filled with 
> > "Untitled" (no extension).
> >
> > In Tools>Options>LO>General there is an option Open/Save Dialogues, I 
> > don't know if this setting would affect Mike's result.
>
> I don't think so.
>
> I've just been playing again with the problem. First up, I deleted 
> ~/.config/libreoffice/ to try to get a clean(er) start. (Not that this 
> seems to have affected anything.)
>
> There's a file JUNK.odt in my home directory, and which behaviour I 
> get actually seems to vary randomly. I've tried even opening this 
> document just the once and doing repeated 'Save As' + Cancel, and the 
> behaviour occasionally changes from one to the other, sticking there 
> for a while before switching back. Sometimes the 'Name' box in the 
> dialogue says "JUNK.odt" [with the odt selected) and sometimes just 
> "JUNK" [selected].
>
> Checking on my laptop, which seems to be running an older version 
> 6.something (I think it's runnjing the previous Mint version), the 
> same sort of behaviour is observable.
>
> This is seriously weird, and very confusing for my wife, who regularly 
> needs to send out .docx files to her contacts; in the mode where 
> "JUNK.odt" is the style, she has to manually change the odt to docx, 
> which should not be necessary.
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