Re: Emacs on Windows keeps complaining: the directory ... is unsafe.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:11:43 +0200
> 
> Yesterday I refreshed my build of Emacs CVS on a Windows machine after
> some months and it keeps complaining:
> 
> error: The directory d:/home/.emacs.d/server is unsafe
> 
> when calling server-start. I see no references to this problem on News
> or Known Problems.

That bug was fixed ages ago.  The test is made only if Emacs runs on
something other than Windows.  Are you sure you don't have a stale
server.el somewhere?

> Is there a cure for this? What I did until now is remove the check on
> server.el, but this is hardly acceptable for the common user.

What check did you remove, and how did it fail for you?  If none of
the above helps to solve the problem, please debug it like Juanma
suggested, and post the results here.

The first thing I'd look at is whether the owner of that directory (as
returned by `file-attributes', for example, is the same as what
`(user-uid)' returns on that system.

TIA