[trinsic2]

Why does libreoffice have such an annoying document recovery mechanism that I can't turn off or modify? It takes like three clicks to cancel that process every time I open a new doc

[buovjaga]

Have you deactivated Tools - Options - Load/Save - General: Save AutoRecovery information...?

[trinsic2]

Yes. It still operates after that if I open a document that I didn't shutdown correctly. Many times I just open documents to take temp notes. and some times I shutdown the application with out saving and that document recovery process starts no matter what.

[buovjaga]

There is this command line option that you could add to your shortcut for launching LibreOffice: --norestore

It will skip the recovery dialog. I use it often when doing QA.