A lot of the time when I open a file screens come up asking if OO can recover files either in use or used previously.
Portable OpenOffice 3.2 xp
I need a way to turn the "recovery" thingy off.
tverbeek wrote:This thread is a classic example of condescending non-answers to technical questions. Sorry, people but OO's auto-recovery "feature" is buggy. Has been for version after version. It's a damned nuisance, and someone asked - like I would like to know - how to disable it. But instead you give a bunch of insulting lectures about how they're using the program wrong. Because you're so damn smart and everybody else is an idiot who doesn't know how to use a computer. Get over yourselves. We're not. I use the program properly. I save my work properly. I close the program and the OS properly. And I still get this useless prompt to recover every document I was working on last time. I'd like to know how to disable it. You know, like any comprtently designed piece of software would allow you to do. If you don't know the answer, STFU, and let the silence demonstrate that there is no solution. Assholes.
jeromyevans wrote:My experience with autorecovery is that problems occur when working on network drives, removable drives or when working across operating systems. It's great on a local disk with a single user in the case of a unplanned shutdown/crash. I have no experience with the portable version of OpenOffice.
tverbeek wrote:This thread is a classic example of condescending non-answers to technical questions. Sorry, people but OO's auto-recovery "feature" is buggy. Has been for version after version. It's a damned nuisance, and someone asked - like I would like to know - how to disable it. But instead you give a bunch of insulting lectures about how they're using the program wrong. Because you're so damn smart and everybody else is an idiot who doesn't know how to use a computer. Get over yourselves. We're not. I use the program properly. I save my work properly. I close the program and the OS properly. And I still get this useless prompt to recover every document I was working on last time. I'd like to know how to disable it. You know, like any comprtently designed piece of software would allow you to do. If you don't know the answer, STFU, and let the silence demonstrate that there is no solution. Assholes.
RoryOF wrote:If a computer consistently gives file recovery messages then there is some misconfiguration or instability of the operating system or the installed program, which should be fixed. We _cannot_ fix every malfunctioning computer - that is the computer user's own responsibility. Turning off autorecovery by the command line merely hides the problem. A major concern must be that if there is such a problem, even if concealed by disabling autorecovery, there may be more serious problems on that computer not yet discovered; I would not wish to undertake any serious work on such a machine.
Zarteg wrote:Ya maybe, but before I fdisk format and reinstall (normal fix for Windows) find all the temp files *.lock files and delete them with OO closed.
Windows seems to accumulate a lot of those, and I delete them I no longer get the Recovery.
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