Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18418
Recovery question won't take "No" for an answer
Last modified: 2004-04-30 16:07:22 UTC
Apparently, something went wrong. As a result, when I started OOo, I got a dialog "Should file XXXX be recovered" (or so, can't reproduce) and three buttons: Yes, No and Cancel. However, pressing No just causes the dialog to re-appear, until I press Cancel.
I suspect that this file is necessary for the functioning of OpenOffice. It would help if you could find out what file that is.
Problem is nor reproducible when using a more recent build like 8683. This dialog comes up because the previously opened (new or edited) file wasn´t saved correctly before the crash. So this dialog offer the opportunity to recover, edit and save the file, avoiding a kind of data loss.
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I still have this problem with OOo 1.1.1. OOo often triggers a bug in the (Linux Red Hat 7.2) XFree server, causing it to crash. Upon restart of OOo it offers to recover the document that was open when the crash happened. I found out that after hitting "No" for 35 times, OOo continues startup normally.