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.

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file recovery never ever gives up after failure
https://launchpad.net/bugs/46594

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