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. -- file recovery never ever gives up after failure https://launchpad.net/bugs/46594 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
