[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 114508] Confusing dialog about discarding recovery data can lead to data loss

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114508

--- Comment #39 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Elliotte Rusty Harold from comment #35)
> The simplest solution by far: recover all. Don't even ask. No dialog. No
> checkboxes. No buttons. Preserve the user's data.

That is not a simple solution. First, it's more coding than the simple solution
suggested by @DanDascalescu and others. Second, it will result in:

* An unexpected delay on startup.
* Surprising error dialogs for the user regarding missing, unreadable or
corrupt files (unless the dialogs are re-worked, and then again it's the
opposite of a simple solution)
* Possible damage to physical media trying to read, and perhaps write, to
directories which the user may not want accessed due to partial failure of the
filesystem or disk.

So no, that is not simple and I reiterate my suggestion to not try to "fix
recover & discard" with this bug.

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