{Precondition} PC-Local: The PC in which emacs is running. PC-Remote: The PC in which a file is created in a folder, that is shared. PC-Local has a shortcut/mapping to the shared folder in PC-Remote. It can hence access the file in PC-Remote via this shortcut/mapped drive. {Action} Start Emacs in PC-Local, and open the file in PC-Remote (either by C-x f or just drag-and-drop) {Observation} Emacs crashes. {Expected} No such crash, and the file is editable/readable depending on the permissions on the file. {Emacs details} In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-08-29 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include' 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: Org Minor modes in effect: auto-insert-mode: t show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x r e p o r t - Recent messages: `epa-file' already enabled Loading d:/vbox/shared/.emacs.d/custom.el (source)... Loading delsel...done Loading paren...done Loading d:/vbox/shared/.emacs.d/custom.el (source)...done Loading d:/vbox/shared/.emacs.d/extensions/org-outlook.el (source)...done Loading d:/vbox/shared/.emacs.d/init.el (source)...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. OVERVIEW CONTENTS...done Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils org-wl org-w3m org-vm org-rmail org-mhe org-mew org-irc org-jsinfo org-infojs org-html org-exp ob-exp org-exp-blocks find-func org-agenda org-info org-gnus org-docview org-bibtex bibtex org-bbdb org-outlook org-protocol org byte-opt warnings bytecomp byte-compile cconv macroexp advice help-fns advice-preload ob-emacs-lisp ob-tangle ob-ref ob-lob ob-table org-footnote org-src ob-comint ob-keys ob ob-eval org-pcomplete pcomplete comint ansi-color ring org-list org-faces org-compat org-entities org-macs noutline outline easy-mmode format-spec regexp-opt cal-menu easymenu calendar cal-loaddefs autoinsert org-install server paren delsel cus-start cus-load aes epa-file epa derived epg epg-config cl time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)