Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 200689
ImageMagick can inadvertently delete image file
Last modified: 2008-04-10 14:43:53 EDT
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
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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.
thanks for the update