From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: 22025@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22025: Emacs 25 corrupts Emacs 24 .emacs.desktop.
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 08:38:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151127083837.GB1782@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
Hello, Emacs
Having recently saved a desktop in Emacs 24.5, run Emacs 25, allowing
desktop to load all ones files. Exit Emacs 25.
Start Emacs 24.5 again. The desktop fails to load. This is a Bad
Thing.
Diagnosis
---------
Emacs 25 has read a version 206 .desktop file, but written a version 208
file on termination. Emacs 24 cannot execute this version.
There was no yes-or-no-p asking "are you sure you want to convert your
desktop to a format incompatible with previous Emacs versions?".
Manually restoring a .desktop to version 206 is fraught with
difficulties, even for somebody (myself) who understands the issues
reasonably well, and has an old version of .desktop saved "just in
case".
Recommendation
--------------
Emacs 25, having loaded a version 206 .desktop, should save it in the
same format until the user has positively consented to it being
converted to version 208.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-27 8:38 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-11-27 9:05 ` bug#22025: Emacs 25 corrupts Emacs 24 .emacs.desktop Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 9:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-27 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 11:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-27 12:27 ` Andy Moreton
2015-12-01 12:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-01 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-01 17:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-01 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-02 12:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-02 14:47 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-01 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-02 11:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-02 13:16 ` Andy Moreton
2015-12-02 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-03 8:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-03 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-15 16:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-15 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 13:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <<83mvtrj02w.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-03 14:33 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-03 14:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-03 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-03 15:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-09-29 21:17 ` Stefan Kangas
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