Document recovery

[LNB]

Started receiving a 'Document Recovery' message when I try and open a document. Document always opens though, even though I get a message saying that the recovery failed. Tried downloading Open Office again using the 'Repair' feature but no luck. Any ideas out there how the fix this problem?

[acknak]

Have you read the Forum Survival Guide?
What OS and OOo version are you using?

As long as you're sure that your document is intact, I would try renaming or removing your OOo user settings folder:
Windows: \Documents and settings\user\Application data\Openoffice.org2
Linux: ~/.openoffice.org2

[LNB]

Thanks for the feedback, but that doesn't really answer the question as to 'why' all my documents, which opened perfectly fine before, now have to go through the Document Recovery scenario. Appears to be a corrupted file in the program but I have no idea where. Again, thanks for the feedback, I will explore your recommendation.

[kingfisher]

The following threads on the other forum may be of help:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=44960
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=55151

[ccornell]

but that doesn't really answer the question as to 'why' all my documents, which opened perfectly fine before, now have to go through the Document Recovery scenario.

Part of the reason there was no explanation is that you have not provided enough information. Acknak provided you a link to the Forum Survival Guide and asked a specific question on OS and OOo version for good reason. OpenOffice.org runs on many different operating systems (Linux, Solaris, OSX, Windows, etc etc.) and there are many different releases out there that people are using. Errors and problems on one OS are not always the same on another, and problems in one release of OOo may be fixed in another.