Prerequisit : Make shure you have a textfile with content in ~/Downloads/foo/bar.txt In your home directory, enter in the location bar in edit mode the begining of a subfolder like "Down" for Download(do not start with /) press TAB to autocompleat. .Start typing the name of a subfolder foo" compleat with TAB and press ENTER. You will now get an error line under the locationbar telling you "Invalid protocol". The location bar has now turned to default mode. Click on the "foo" subfolder in the locationbar. The error has gone away, and the folder listing seams normal. Any files in this folder looks normal and file preferences shown that the files has content(Size). If you try to open bar.txt you will find that the file is opened with no content. Trying to save this file with "save" I get this error: The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to /home/kjetil/src/odoo/src/odoo/README.md. Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available. Trying to save this file with "save as" the copleate path is offered as default. And I get the normal: A file named "README.md" already exists. Are you sure you want to overwrite it? When i choose YES I have overwritten my file with empty file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Prerequisit : Make shure you have a textfile with content in ~/Downloads/foo/bar.txt 2.In your home directory, enter in the location bar in edit mode the begining of a subfolder like "Down" for Download(do not start with /) press TAB to autocompleat. 3.Start typing the name of a subfolder foo" compleat with TAB and press ENTER. You will now get an error line under the locationbar telling you "Invalid protocol". The location bar has now turned to default mode. 4.Click on the "foo" subfolder in the locationbar. The error has gone away, and the folder listing seams normal. Any files in this folder looks normal and file preferences shown that the files has content(Size). 5. open bar.txt you will find that the file is opened with no content. Actual Results: file is opened with no content. Expected Results: File opened with content
Same in 4.14.1
Cannot reproduce. Doing step 3, I get no error message.
At step 2, the field must be cleared before starting to type "Down". Can reproduce now.
Works for me in KDE Frameworks 5.47. The "Invalid protocol" issue is Bug 319700.