Bug 200689 - ImageMagick can inadvertently delete image file
Summary: ImageMagick can inadvertently delete image file
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ImageMagick
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Norm Murray
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-07-30 21:53 UTC by Andre Robatino
Modified: 2008-04-10 18:43 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: f8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-10 18:43:53 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Andre Robatino 2006-07-30 21:53:43 UTC
Description of problem:
  Display an image with the following command:

display file://<name of image file>

Then edit the image, then exit, selecting "Don't save" when prompted whether to
save the changes.  The image file is deleted.  The problem does not happen if
the "file://" prefix is not used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ImageMagick-6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.3

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 03:24:25 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 2 Andre Robatino 2008-04-04 03:34:42 UTC
This doesn't happen anymore as of F8.  Although when exiting after editing, it
doesn't prompt whether to save the changes, it simply exits without saving.  I
don't know whether this should be considered correct behavior or not.

Comment 3 John Poelstra 2008-04-10 18:43:53 UTC
thanks for the update


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