[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 91345] Save not active after links updated

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Sun Sep 10 09:30:46 UTC 2017


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91345

--- Comment #23 from Buovjaga <todventtu at suomi24.fi> ---
(In reply to gmarco from comment #22)
> 2) I think you can easily test yourself, try this please using the two files
> ods and odt already attached on 2017-01-13:
> - open the ods, change the cell A5 to xxxxxxxx, exit saving
> - open now the odt, reply YES to update links (you will see that data
> regularly updated), now click on the "X" button to exit as usual: the file
> is closed without any save request and is not updated as it should (MS
> office does it!). You can verify reopening the odt and replying NO to update
> links: you still see the old data.
> - I said:
> <<Substantially, if I update only the linked objects without applying any
> change to the text part of the odt document, exiting by "X", Writer closes
> without asking if I want to save it (YES|NOT) and does not rewrite the odt
> file without we have awareness of that. I do not think it's of trivial
> importance. >>
> Then, retry opening again the odt, reply YES to update links, update now
> also any text data (a word in the first line, for example), then click on
> the "X" button to exit as usual: LO now asks if you want to save or not as
> expected.
> 
> WARNING! Remember that the objects links embedded in the document are
> dependent on the drive and folder where the source files were when linked
> (in the sample the odt may reside everywhere but the ods has to reside on
> the D: root, as the odt links point there; if needed you can open the odt
> and change the links drive-id from Edit-Links).

Yes, I can reproduce. Indeed, I first have to manually modify the links to
match my own location. Then I can do a new round of modifying the .ods
contents, opening the .odt, clicking Yes to update and it does not ask me to
save.

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