bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" fails "No files can be recovered"

bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" fails "No files can be recovered"

[Yary Hluchan]

I'm running Emacs 23 on a laptop, and the laptop sometimes loses power.
That's not the problem.

When I boot and restart Emacs, I go to the File menu > "Recover Crashed
Session", it brings up a window like so:

 Move to the session you want to recover,
 then type C-c C-c to select it.

 You can also delete some of these files;
 type d on a line to mark that file for deletion.

  c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/Application Data/.emacs.d/auto-save-list:
  wildcard .saves-*
  total used in directory 5 available 21636216
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None  778 09-02 16:13 .saves-360-POPNOTE~
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None  382 08-15 09:21 .saves-1648-POPNOTE~
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None  138 08-10 15:06 .saves-2560-POPNOTE~
...

I put the cursor on the first line (".saves-360-POPNOTE~") and hit
C-c C-C, and get this error in *Messages*:

No files can be recovered from this session now

That error happens for any of the .saves files

The contents of .saves-360-POPNOTE~:
c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/process_files_new.php
c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#process_files_new.php#
c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/local_file.php
c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#local_file.php#
c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/filepath.php
c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#filepath.php#

The files exist, the temp files do not exist- in this case, I had
saved all my work.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-09-03 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by date

Minor modes in effect:
  recentf-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <file> <recover-session> <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <return> C-x 2 C-x k <return> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> <left> C-x o <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> C-c C-c <escape> 
x r e p o <tab> r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:

File error: Cannot open load file, menuacc

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
call-interactively: Beginning of buffer
No files can be recovered from this session now

bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" fails "No files can be recovered"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:28:52 -0700
> From: Yary Hluchan <yary@apicom.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> The files exist, the temp files do not exist- in this case, I had
> saved all my work.

Please clarify: which of the files you mentioned in your report exist
and which don't.

Thanks.

bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" fails "No files can be recovered"

[Yary Hluchan]

These files exist:
c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/process_files_new.php
c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/local_file.php
c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/filepath.php

These files don't exist:
c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#process_files_new.php#
c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#local_file.php#
c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#filepath.php#

-y

~~~~~

The Moon is Waxing Crescent (32% of Full)

bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" fails "No files can be recovered"

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Yary Hluchan <yary@apicom.com> writes:

> I'm running Emacs 23 on a laptop, and the laptop sometimes loses power.
> That's not the problem.
>
> When I boot and restart Emacs, I go to the File menu > "Recover Crashed
> Session", it brings up a window like so:
>
>  Move to the session you want to recover,
>  then type C-c C-c to select it.
>
>  You can also delete some of these files;
>  type d on a line to mark that file for deletion.
>
>   c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/Application Data/.emacs.d/auto-save-list:
>   wildcard .saves-*
>   total used in directory 5 available 21636216
>   -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None  778 09-02 16:13 .saves-360-POPNOTE~
>   -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None  382 08-15 09:21 .saves-1648-POPNOTE~
>   -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None  138 08-10 15:06 .saves-2560-POPNOTE~
> ...
>
> I put the cursor on the first line (".saves-360-POPNOTE~") and hit
> C-c C-C, and get this error in *Messages*:
>
> No files can be recovered from this session now

I'm unable to reproduce this bug in Emacs 24.  If I have a ~/.saves-*
file, where some of the files are deleted, and some are not, `M-x
recover-session' correctly recovers the non-deleted files.

So either this bug has been fixed by now, or there's something in your
setup I'm now able to reproduce.

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bug#889: Reopen #889

[era eriksson]

reopen 889
thanks

[Resend -- attempted to reopen before, with a Cc: to Larsi.]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:05:18 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
<larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> I'm unable to reproduce this bug in Emacs 24.  If I have a ~/.saves-*
> file, where some of the files are deleted, and some are not, `M-x
> recover-session' correctly recovers the non-deleted files.
> So either this bug has been fixed by now, or there's something in your
> setup I'm now able to reproduce.

Larsi, I think you misunderstand the issue.  My understanding is that this is a feature request: recover-session should recover your entire session after a crash, which it doesn't do, and never has done.

Reopening; obviously, feel free to reclose if I am mistaken (and / or there really is such functionality in Emacs24 now.  Cursory review of the bzr head suggests that there isn't).

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bug#889: recover-buffers moved

[era eriksson]

In case somebody still wants to take a look, the recover-buffers code is
now hosted on Github.

https://github.com/tripleee/recover-buffers

The current license is dual GPL/BSD but if you would like to consider
inclusion with Emacs, I'd be happy to change it.

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bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" is misleading

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"era eriksson" <era@iki.fi> writes:

> Larsi, I think you misunderstand the issue.  My understanding is that
> this is a feature request: recover-session should recover your entire
> session after a crash, which it doesn't do, and never has done.

The function is defined to:

---
Recover auto save files from a previous Emacs session.
---

Which I think it does successfully?

> In case somebody still wants to take a look, the recover-buffers code is
> now hosted on Github.
>
> https://github.com/tripleee/recover-buffers
>
> The current license is dual GPL/BSD but if you would like to consider
> inclusion with Emacs, I'd be happy to change it.

If you want to restore the session from where you left off, I think the
recommended way to do that is to use the desktop package.
recover-session is more lightweight, and your proposed recover-buffers
(if I read the code correctly) sort of automates some bits of what
recover-session does?

I can't really remember much demand for something like this in Emacs,
since there are already other packages like desktop that's meant for
this, so I'm not sure it makes sense to add something like
recover-buffers to Emacs.  Does anybody else have an opinion here?

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bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" is misleading

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I can't really remember much demand for something like this in Emacs,
> since there are already other packages like desktop that's meant for
> this, so I'm not sure it makes sense to add something like
> recover-buffers to Emacs.  Does anybody else have an opinion here?

Nobody had an opinion here in a month, so I'm closing this as a "wontfix".

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bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" is misleading

[era]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022, at 20:31, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Nobody had an opinion here in a month, so I'm closing this as a "wontfix".

The actual  bug report here is that  the description of what "recover-buffers" does is vaguely wrong.

I reported it because I came across people who thought it was supposed to do more.

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bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" is misleading

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:09:54 +0200
> From: era <era+emacs@iki.fi>
> Cc: 889@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022, at 20:31, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > Nobody had an opinion here in a month, so I'm closing this as a "wontfix".
> 
> The actual  bug report here is that  the description of what "recover-buffers" does is vaguely wrong.
> 
> I reported it because I came across people who thought it was supposed to do more.

The current doc string says:

  Recover auto save files from a previous Emacs session.
  This command first displays a Dired buffer showing you the
  previous sessions that you could recover from.
  To choose one, move point to the proper line and then type C-c C-c.
  Then you’ll be asked about a number of files to recover.

This is quite descriptive, IMO, but if you can point out where are the
potentially confusing parts, maybe we could make it even better.

For example, if we reword the first sentence like this:

  Recover your edits saved in auto-save files by previous Emacs sessions.

will the doc string be less confusing?  Any other suggestions?

Thanks.