Comment 31 for bug 950071

The patch mentioned in comment 12 should fix this on master towards LO 3.6. (Backporting to LO 3.5.1 is planned)

If you worked around this problem on Linux by removing your ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user directory, and you still have the pre LO 3.5 ~/.libreoffice/3/user directory around, you can apparently force LO 3.5/3.6 to do a fresh migration of the old data by removing ~/.libreoffice/3/MIGRATED and the new ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user directory. (But you should of course only do that in a LO 3.5/3.6 build where this issue is fixed.)

However, please note that the Recent Documents list is not migrated (i.e., it will always be empty in a fresh LO 3.5/3.6, regardless of any pre LO 3.5 data). This is because officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu does not contain any MigrationStep for /org.openoffice.Office.Histories. (That migration of user data from LO 3.x to LO 3.5 became necessary at all is a nasty consequence of bug 32263.)