Ugly stack filename problem after Save as!

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:32 PM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 2/20/14, 11:27 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
>>

> I have seen a semi-reporducible glitch like this on OS/X with firefox and
>> both gmail and the ECF court filing system.
>>
>> Under not yet specified conditions, if I open file originalfile in
>> LibreOffice, save it as newfile, and then export to pdf, and then drag the
>> new pdf for upload, rather than newfile.pdf, it is actually
>> originalfile.pdf that attaches.
>>
>>

> My gut tells me, without objective evidence, that this is somehow related
> to Apple's removal of the Save As feature in Mt Lion, the one that requires
> you to make a duplicate before editing. It was partially restored in
> Mavericks but it still feels like it isn't all there.
>

That could seem likely (there is a delay in those where a file seems to be
both/neither).

However, I'm using LIbreOffice and Firefox, neither of which are part of
that aberrant behavior.


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