From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Layer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: huge files in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/ Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:39:13 -0700 Message-ID: <17763.1179779953@gemini.franz.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179779964 13667 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 20:39:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:39:24 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 22:39:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqEf4-0003A3-Ic for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 22:39:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqEf4-0007pw-3u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqEf1-0007pg-1p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqEez-0007pU-8F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqEez-0007pR-2t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fw1.franz.com ([206.169.112.54] helo=gemini.franz.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqEey-0001y1-Fo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: from gemini.franz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gemini.franz.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l4LKdDgo017765 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 13:39:13 -0700 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15720 Archived-At: I just deleted 2.7 GB (yes, you read that right) of files in the above named directory. Wow. The size and contents of 98% of the files in that directory look OK (all less than 2K and are a series of pathnames, one per line). Some of the files, however, are really enormous. They all start out OK, but have complete garbage in them after a certain point. Sometimes mail messages. Sometimes binary data. I've seen this on several machines around here, and under several users accounts, so it is not isolated to my .emacs/uid. Anyone else seen this? I found only one reference in google (http://ww.telent.net/diary/2004/7/#4.78600) to the problem. It's rather hard to search using ".saves-", unfortunately. I can easily write a cron job to clean up the problem, but it feels like a pretty bad bug to me. Kevin