Bug report #6709
Creating a shapefile fails silently when you don't have permissions (should have an error message, consistent with other actions)
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Low | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | GUI | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | master | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 15874 |
Description
- Right click on a vector layer and choose "save as". Try to save it somewhere you don't have permissions (often C:/ on Windows). You will get an error message saying to contact the administrator to get permissions.
- Click "Layer>New>New Shapefile layer" and try to save it to the same place. The file will not be saved, but there will be no error message. (and anyway, is there a reason why the QT save dialog is used in this case instead of the native Windows dialog? I think it might be needed to provide that encoding option, but I can't remember for sure).
Only tested on Windows.
Associated revisions
show failure to create a new shapefile on message bar and point to message log (fixes #6709)
History
#1
Updated by Alister Hood about 12 years ago
Also tested in 1.8
#2
Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 10 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Closed
Fixed in changeset 71c15f0639b2e9356b23fc9e7d113c01f10787da.
#3
Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 10 years ago
- Category set to GUI