Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 86335
Permanently skip recovery of documents
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:31:14 UTC
Wish: that during document recovery of multiple documents, a document can be skipped from recover and optionally never asked again during a later OOo start.
Document recovery is "Framework" component.
See this thread for some workarounds: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2660&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
Or maybe it's easier to select just the docs that should be recovered. However, to recover all or nothing could take too much time when it's not necessary to recover every document.
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A obvious way to decide between 3 choices for each document in the document recovery would help, allowing to: 1) recover now 2) postpone/skip now 3) skip and never ask again / finally remove from list I would suggest the following: the above or similar texts could come in tooltips or explanation in the dialog whereas the choice itself can be done with two additional colums containing (for each document) a checkbox for deciding between (1) and (2) (compare to e.g. how Firefox does it for tabs after a crash), and a red X (or whatever is the standard OOo icon for closing/deleting something) button for (3). If the latter is clicked, the document is deleted immediately from the list, but a message box will pop up to ask for confirmation - so one of these often annoying "Do you really really want to..." messages, but in this case as there usually won't be many documents to be deleted from the list at once and removing a document from the list may finally destroy the last existing backup of it, this seems legitimate to me. The then checked documents will be recovered (if possible) and opened, whereas the rest will left untouched. Documents, which could not be recovered will stay in the list together with the unchecked ones for the next session. Currently I'm really missing the option (3), as there sometimes exist problematic documents on recovery lists (those, which immediately after recovery crash OOo and thus get on the list again => infinite loop preventing further use of OOo), and a workaround as suggested by pbouf is ok for experienced computer users as me, but never e.g. for my parents, who otherwise really like OOo ;-).
ok - in my last post I've overseen the chance to skip the recovery of *ALL* documents with "Cancel", so you will be able to go on to use OOo if you have a critical document on your recovery list. But again, my parents wouldn't find their way through easily ;-)