Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#3669 closed bug (invalid)

GDAL Tools: rasterize overwrite existing raster without asking for confirmation

Reported by: pcav Owned by: brushtyler
Priority: critical: causes crash or data corruption Milestone: Version 1.7.0
Component: GDALTools Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Must Fix for Release: No Platform: All
Platform Version: Awaiting user input: no

Description

When rasterizing a vector, an existing raster is silently overwritten. This is not safe.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by brushtyler, 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?

comment:2 by pcav, 13 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

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.

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