libreoffice keeps asking if I want to recover files [again]

[Phil]

How about this?:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2660

"To stop the recovery process, you can delete the file.....

file:///home/<your user name>/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Recovery.xcu"


(Maybe for safety just rename that and see if it helps)

[juanperucho]

How about this?:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2660

"To stop the recovery process, you can delete the file.....

file:///home/<your user name>/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Recovery.xcu"


(Maybe for safety just rename that and see if it helps)

I had already seen that post, but there is no such file in my system (actually libreoffice seems to have changed a lot in the directory structure).

[juanperucho]

Just one DUMB question:

Do you close LibreOffice by clicking on the X button at the right hand top corner of the window or by selecting File > Quit/Exit?

May be you are doing the second thing and it could be what is causing the Recover wizard to come up for the remaining unsaved documents.

Eg.: if I have four docs open and close one of them, all of them get closed.

I have tried all possibilites: X, quit, close.
As I said: It's absolutely random!!! (or so it seems, since there is no such thing as randomness, but only uncertainty).

[juanperucho]

LibreOffice (and its predecessor OpenOffice) can be annoying if you close a window or it crashes without saving the document, and if something is wrong with the time-saved backup which causes recovery to fail. It seems to remember too well that a backup is present and keeps offering to restore every time you open the program, even when that's impossible.

Re-installing or upgrading LO won't help, nor will re-installing the OS if you back up and restore the folders containing your work, because the broken backups will still be there. What you need to do is hunt down and delete the backup files. You need to search for them in the folders where your main documents are stored, and if they're not there they might be in /tmp/ or a subdirectory thereof. Sorry, I can't remember; it's been a long time since it happened to me. You might be able to find out where they're stored by looking in the preferences for LO.

It's not a bug, though it might be the developers are too persistent in their efforts to prevent work being lost. It's not going to go away in the next version of LO. It's not going to be any different on another OS. It's the way LO works and you need to find the broken backups and remove them.

kjpetrie:
I uninstalled, erased my libreoffice vircon and reinstalled, so there is nothing left from before except for the documents.

[juanperucho]

Thanks for all your suggestions and comments.
The whole post is kind of misguided because of my lack of precision.

The real issue is with the closing section.

Recovery is working as it should: if the session closes incorrectly, it kindly offers to recover the docs.

I was shooting the messenger.

[juanperucho]

Is there a way to go back to a previous version of libreoffice?

In my notebook I  have 3.3.2 installed and everything works perfectly.