After a crash, I start OOo. The recover dialog pops up, like it should. For some
reason I alt-tab away from it or click on another window. Once it loses focus,
it is impossible to get back to it. That the dialogue still lives can be seen in
two ways: a) there's still an soffice.bin in the list of tasks, and b) when I
press WIN-D (for minimize all windows), I can see the dialogue for the fraction
of a second. The problem is that if a less tech savvy user has this happening to
him, he'll start OOo again (thinking that for some reason it didn't start the
first time), thus creating a new document and bypassing the recovery dialogue
(which still waits for input). Loading his crashed document, he will find it in
a pre-recovery state and despair. Can't have despairing users ;) The only
workaround I'm aware of is killing the task in the taskmanager and starting OOo
again; you get another recover dialog and another chance.