To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75945 Issue #|75945 Summary|file recovery never ever gives up after failure Component|framework Version|OOo 2.2 Platform|All URL|http://launchpad.net/bugs/46594 OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|tm Reported by|doko
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 31 07:25:07 +0000 2007 ------- Complete comments in - http://launchpad.net/bugs/46594 - http://launchpad.net/bugs/52902 I had some files lost in OpenOffice for whatever reason. Upon restarting OpenOffice it tries, and fails, to recover them. That's fine, I understand it can't always recover the files. But it tries to recover them every single time I start OpenOffice, and there is no apparent way to tell it to stop trying. (I've come to grips with the fact that those files are gone - I simply don't want to go through the failed recovery process every time I start OpenOffice). This is easily reproduced with the following procedure: 1. Create a new document, /tmp/test.odt 2. killall -9 soffice.bin 3. rm /tmp/test.odt 4. ooffice 5. ooffice If I am simply viewing an OpenOffice.org document, and make no modifications to it, then OpenOffice.org (or the system) crashes, on the next startup it attempts to "recover" the file. However, there is nothing to recover; the copy on disk is perfectly intact. I think there is a usability bug here, yes. It does not do as many users expect. The most common case here, described in my earlier comment, is one where the user has clicked on a link in their web browser, opened the resulting document in OpenOffice.org, and then logged out and shut down with it still running. This results in a recovery dialog the next time they start openoffice (again, regardless of whether they even edited the document), which cannot possibly succeed. The other issue is that the dialog itself is confusing. The user is given two options: "Start recovery" and "Cancel". If recovery fails, "Start recovery" becomes "Finish" (and is cancel disabled?). It would be a great improvement to change the buttons to explain what action will be taken. For example: before recovery attempt: "Recover" and "Discard" then after recovery attempt: "Try again later" and "Discard" or something along those lines. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
