Any way to open Animate so it will ignore RECOVER files?

As I mostly launch my JSFL from Python, I was able to have a reasonable work around.

ANIMATE_APP_RECOVER_FILENAME_LIST = "~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Animate CC 2018/en_US/Configuration/AutoRecoverFilenames.txt"
def full_pa(dir):
    return path.abspath(path.expanduser(dir))
def walk_directory_for_recovery_fla_files(dir):
    if path.exists(dir):
        for f in listdir(full_path(dir)):
            full = path.join(dir, f)
            if path.isdir(full):
                walk_directory_for_recovery_fla_files(full)
            elif f.startswith('RECOVER_') and f.endswith('.fla'):
                logger.info("Removing recovery file {}".format(full))
                os.remove(full)
def remove_animate_recovery_files(root):
    with open(full_path(ANIMATE_APP_RECOVER_FILENAME_LIST), 'w'):
        logger.info("Clearing Animate's auto recovery filename list...")
    walk_directory_for_recovery_fla_files(root)

You can replace logger.info with print. root is the directory which will contain your recovery files. I use this to also clean out the recovery files.

I updated the link above. On the Mac, there is an auto recovery file that keeps a list of the recovery files.

RECOVER_* files are actually not cleaned up by Animate (regardless if you use or "discard" using the recovery file when you start the app)