Re: huge files in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/

[Kevin Layer <layer@franz.com>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>>     I found a couple of bad files at home.  One is 1mb, the other 17mb.  I
>>     use 21.4.1 on Linux (FC6) there.  There are definite good lines
>>     interspersed in between the junk.
>> 
>> Are the good lines complete?  Do they end with newlines?
>> Do they start with newlines?  At what kinds of points in the normal
>> and valid sequence of input does the junk get inserted?

Yes.  No.  No.  Here's an example (the row of *'s is a delimiter):

**************************************** START
/home/layer/mail/inbox-spam/#1#„Ì#	+inbox-spam/1\x12I´Z\x1f	D”é*	 2D 02/05 [=?iso-8859-1?B?]  =?iso-8859-1?B?TWFyaW5lciBQcml2YXRlIFNhbGU6IFNvdXR
geté*	 1Dt02/05 ["NameBargain"  ]  Winter Special - $7.88 Transfers!<<--------------B
ì\x01+	    {%b} no msgsp/eœp\x10	mh-searcher\p\x10	Cached value of chosen search program.:Œ­\x10	mh-search-function\f­\x10	Function which executes the search program.ì¬\x10	mh-search-next-result-functiont̬\x10	Function to parse the next line of output.
Expected to return a list of three strings: name of the folder,
**************************************** END

then a lot more binary junk and then this:

**************************************** START
\x1ce/layer/mail/inbox-spam/\x01¤×#	/home/layer/mail/inbox-spam/#1#”×#	\(:-[({]\)\(\W\|\'\))\b\x14Î#	\(:-[/\]\)\(\W\|\'\)\x1e\x18	ôÍ#	\([:;]-?)\)\(\W\|\'\))\b\x0678	\x0eore--99379	\x12tf-save--99380\b\x13tf-bound--99381\x19uffer named *Summary*)\bdÍ#	\(\s-\|^\)\(_\(\(\w\|_[^_]\)+\)_\)\(\s-\|[?!.,;]\)\bDÍ#	\(\
**************************************** END

I'm reluctant to just upload the (1mb) file, because I can clearly see
it contains personal/private information.