Re: address@hidden: restoring emacs session fails for missing files]

[Lars Hansen]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>I tried this with one file.  In *Messages*, I saw
>
>    Desktop: File "/home/bob/foo" no longer exists.
>    Desktop: 1 buffer restored, 1 failed to restore.
>
>My procedure was:
>
>    1. In Emacs, using `find-file', create a buffer named foo and
>       insert some text in it.  
>    2. In Emacs, save the buffer named foo to a file of the same name.
>    3. In Emacs, kill the buffer containing the file foo.
>    4. In Emacs, evaluate the expression:   (desktop-save "~bob/")
>    5. In a shell, `rm foo'
>    6. In Emacs, evaluate the expression:   (desktop-read "~bob/")
>
>  
>
If you kill the buffer foo *before* calling desktop-save, I don't see
how it can be saved in the desktop file.
Are you shure that you killed the buffer foo before calling desktop-save?

I can reproduce your scenario if I swop steps 3 and 4. Actually I have
to do two more steps:
  - Load the desktop library somehow since desktop-save isn't autoloaded.
  - Create and save one more buffer (say bar) so desktop will try to
restore *two* buffers.
Anyway, what I see is the expected behaviour.