444767 - Save As... dialog appears for already saved files

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Other Applications Graveyard :: XUL Explorer, defect)

Description

[Drew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Xul Explorer 0.8

Sometimes, when choosing the Save button on an already active and saved file, the Save As... dialog will open instead.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
I have had this happen several times in the last few days and I cannot reliably reproduce it but it has happened more than 3 times.
Actual Results:  
When the Save As... dialog pops up you can choose the file from the list and are prompted to overwrite it.  This happens both when using the key combo (Ctrl+S) and when clicking the toolbar button.

Expected Results:  
It should have just transparently saved the existing file and not opened a Save As... dialog for an already saved file.

I don't want to cause alarm because it wasn't too big of a deal but I did lose data because of this bug.  I chose the close button and was prompted with a Save As... dialog (presumably the close function calls the save function for every open file) and I chose cancel from Save As... because the file was already saved.  I then reopened the file and it was empty (an already saved file!)  I also cannot reproduce this behavior and I know that bugs reports are basically useless if they can't be reproduced but I feel like you should be alerted to the possibility.

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

XUL Explorer is a dead project. We are not going to fix these bugs.