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Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:29:16 -0400 |
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Hi,
my question is probably very common, but please read this message to the
end.
My computer crashed (not due to emacs) while I have lots of open buffers
in emacs,
so I reboot and launch emacs, then "Recover session". But when typing
C-c C-c
on the latest .saves-* file, I get the message
"No files can be recovered from this session now"
I could not find ANY information on what this could mean :
- searching the archive of this very list for this phrase gives:
"No document matching your query."
- a google search gives about 20 references
which are completely irrelevent for the common user.
(with stack tracebacks, *.el and other configuration files, etc.)
So :
- what does (or : can) it mean ?
(Under the first, most basic, simple and frequent hyopthesis that
"all is working well")
One innocent answer might be :
- there are no unsaved files ! All has been saved before the crash
(and the #...# files removed), no file has thereafter been modified.
But then :
- why do I have the ".saves-*" file, nonempty
(listing all my open buffers, normal and #...# filenames),
with modification/creation date just the time of the crash ?
Is this ".saves-" file not updated whenever a file has successfully
been saved
and not yet modified again ?
And most of all :
- why is the message so cryptic (instead of saying "no backup files found")
and there is not a little more explicit help on all of this ?
I imagined lots of more complicated answers that could explain this message
before doing " ll `cat ~/.em*/.sav*` " to see that none of the #files#
existed.
(Did I choose not the latest .saves- file ? because another error also
came up:
"recover-file: Auto-save file
/home/user/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/#.saves-20606-localhost~# not current".
[the function "recover-file" went by default into this strange hidden
subdirectory !]
- did I "loose all" because I did not "recover-session" right at the
first launch of emacs ?...)
Thanks in advance,
Fred
- No files can be recovered from this session now,
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