Bug 1513 – Timer Record Save As dialog will not allow saving to existing open project

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 1513 - Timer Record Save As dialog will not allow saving to existing open project


Summary:	Timer Record Save As dialog will not allow saving to existing open project

Status:	RESOLVED QUICKFIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User Interface
Version:	2.1.3
Hardware:	Per OS All

Importance:	P4 Repeatable
Assigned To:	Default Assignee for New Bugs

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Reported:	2016-09-13 05:31 UTC by Peter Sampson
Modified:	2018-08-20 11:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	1) Open Audacity 2) Save Project as say "Test" 3) Open Timer Record 4) check the "Enable Automatic Save" to be on 5) "Current Project" in the box becomes un-grayed and active as does its "Select" button 6) click the Select button 7) click Save in the Save As dialog that appears 8) result: Error message "The selected Filename could not be used ... because it would overwrite ... "
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Closed:	2018-08-20 00:00:00

Flags:	petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Win+ petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Mac+ gale: Test‑OK‑Lin+

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Description Peter Sampson 2016-09-13 05:31:17 UTC

Although the steps to reproduce may be seen as unusual (as the user will normally know where they have already saved the project to) the user may want to use step 6 to check the filename and pathing for the project.

Having done that, step 7 should allow "saving" to the current open project and not put up the error message.

So although this is a fringe case I still think that this is one that we should deal with.

Comment 1 Steve Daulton 2016-09-17 10:55:35 UTC

Fix committed:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/341e3e12071

Comment 2 Peter Sampson 2016-09-18 12:23:39 UTC

tested on W10 and Mac El Cap r16e6629 18-sep-16

Works correctly on both platforms as expected.

Comment 3 Gale Andrews 2016-09-18 13:59:03 UTC

OK on Ubuntu 14.04 - it won't overwrite project with same name but different capitalization. Thanks Steve.