Remove recovery file

[ericksonla]

I have a model that at one time crashed. Now, every time I open it, it asks if I want to open the Recovery File. The file is 5 months old and I've opened the model dozens if not hundreds of times since then and always clicked No. How do I get Fusion to forget about this file and stop asking me about it?

[jeff_strater]

You should just be able to left click on that item in the dialog.  Fusion will bring up a menu, and one of the choices will be "Delete"

[ericksonla]

I don't get that popup. It only has one file that it wants me to use. I've attached a screenshot.

[CruftMeister]

I have this same issue - was there ever a resolution posted?

[CruftMeister]

I found this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-t...

It shows that if you go into the file menu and then select "recover documents" you can get back to the dialog box that lets you delete the recovery file

[roger.froud]

To be honest, this is a real pain and needs fixing. All they need to do is have an option to discard the one file that it repeatedly offers you every time you open the damned job. Come one team, fix things that are just plain annoying!

[Anonymous]

I learned that if you accept yes to the recovery file, save or don't (whichever you choose), and close the file, the suggested recovery file doesn't show up anymore.

[roger.froud]

Thanks for that, it's useful to know.

The problem is that you only need to do this sort of thing once in a while, and I'll probably have forgotten what you've said by then.

It's an unintuitive system. When you're offered a recovery file, you're obviously going to assume that this is going to overwrite the current file that you don't want to lose. In that case, you're hardly going to say Yes, and risk losing your file of the same name. It doesn't matter that in fact this doesn't happen, that you're given the choice. You're simply not going to say Yes.

All they need to do is to provide a button that offers the option to delete the recovery file if you don't want it.

How hard can it be?