Issue 50164

Summary:	OpenOffice allows deleting an opened file.
Product:	General	Reporter:	nagashree <mnagashree>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	680m104
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description nagashree 2005-06-01 10:37:38 UTC

Steps to reprodce:
1) Open an existing document.
2) Go to the terminal or nautilus and delete the corresponding file.
3) Close OpenOffice.

Notice that it does not even prompt for saving the document.

Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-06-01 10:45:37 UTC

Framework issue.

Comment 2 thorsten.martens 2005-06-16 13:04:39 UTC

Until the opened file hasnÂ´t been edited in any way by OOo, no saving prompt
will appear. This is really not a bug in OOo when a user deletes manually a
previously opened file in the background.

Comment 3 nagashree 2005-06-16 13:24:08 UTC

On windows it does not allow to do so, it say,
"This file is been used by other program or person.
 Close any program that might be using the file and try again"

Looks like a valid issue.

Comment 4 mci 2005-06-16 13:48:52 UTC

Hi nagashree,

thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org...

I agree with tm that this is not an OpenOffice.org issue since "the failure" is
that it is allowed to delete files which are in use...
Windows does something like "file locking" 
     ==> Explorer "knows" that the file is in use.
AFAIK UNIX doesn't do that at all 
     ==> how should Nautilus/the shell know that the file is in use??

The only way out of this problöem seems to be that OOo should have a look by
closing the file if it exists anymore. If the file file doesn't exist, OOo
should ask the user what to do with that file...This would be a workaround ...
But this is not a bug in OOo. 

I set this as a ENHANCEMENT and send it to the appropriate person...


==> set to Enhancement
==> reassigned to requirements

Comment 5 nagashree 2005-06-16 14:04:36 UTC

Great, Thankyou very much

Comment 6 ace_dent 2008-05-16 00:54:29 UTC

OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but
has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with
one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been
addressed. Either use the recent stable version:
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also
wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have
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http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
 
Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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