diff --git a/src/libotutil/ot-variant-utils.c b/src/libotutil/ot-variant-utils.c
index b9b85047..513776ef 100644
--- a/src/libotutil/ot-variant-utils.c
+++ b/src/libotutil/ot-variant-utils.c
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ ot_util_variant_save (GFile *dest,
   ot_lobj GOutputStream *out = NULL;
   gsize bytes_written;
   
-  out = (GOutputStream*)g_file_replace (dest, NULL, 0, FALSE, cancellable, error);
+  out = (GOutputStream*)g_file_replace (dest, NULL, G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION, FALSE,
+                                        cancellable, error);
   if (!out)
     goto out;