Bug report #3669
GDAL Tools: rasterize overwrite existing raster without asking for confirmation
| Status: | Closed | ||
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| Priority: | Low | ||
| Assignee: |  Giuseppe Sucameli | ||
| Category: | GDAL Tools | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | Regression?: | No | |
| Operating System: | All | Easy fix?: | No |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | Resolution: | invalid | |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | Copied to github as #: | 13728 |
Description
When rasterizing a vector, an existing raster is silently overwritten. This is not safe.
History
#1
Updated by Giuseppe Sucameli about 13 years ago
When you select the output file (by click on the Select button) the tool ask for confirmation if you select an existent file.
When should it ask for?
#2
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 13 years ago
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from Open to Closed
It does not ask, at least not in my case (GDAL 1.7). However, this is solved in GDAL 1.8, so I think we can close this.