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       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  selecting files in the recently used category lead to incorrect
  filenames to be used

Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  Fix Released
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi, I have to report a HUUUUUUGE monster bug in
  Nautilus 2.24.1
  Ubuntu 8.10 up to date as of 3/30/09

  with regards to saving an image.

  the problem is that it will happily overwrite an image even if the
  "user" tells it to save the image with a different name, IF the target
  file was original selected from the "recent files" list.

  Try this.

  1-View a page on the web that has a jpeg, thusly:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/focusman55/3398649768/

  2-right-click on the image, save it to your desktop.

  3-find the image on the desktop, double-click it, it will open in a
  viewer. Close the image. The image should now be at the top of the
  "recent documents" list. Check this by going to the places menu and
  then "recent-documents", the top entry should open to the same image.

  4-save the image (or any other image) again, the same way, but this
  time in the "save image" dialog click on "recently used" in the left
  part and click on the top entry in the list, on the right side. You
  should see the picture on the right (in a thumbnail viewer) and the
  filename at the very top in the file-box. Click on the name and
  *change the name* in the filename dialogbox, then hit alt-s to save
  the file with that name.

  Right?

  Wrong.

  You just overwrote the original image, that you clicked on in the
  "recent documents" list.

  Try it again, this time using the "desktop' link on the left side,
  then clicking on the image-file, then changing the name in the
  "filename" dialog. Hit alt-s or save. Now you have a new file with
  that name containing the image that you want to save.

  As long as you select an entry in the "recently used" file list just
  before saving, you will overwrite that file, regardless of whatever
  you have set the "filename" dialog to. Not only will it save the file
  with that name regardless of whatever you put in, it will save it in
  that *directory* (which was the point of my using the "recently used"
  list in the first place).

  How's that for a quick & easy way to lose a few days worth of work?

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