From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 50MB large auto-save file after Emacs crash Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:53:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87mzj2uevb.fsf@escher.local.home> <87zmn13vuf.fsf@escher.local.home> <87vexo4r1e.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134806183 4179 80.91.229.2 (17 Dec 2005 07:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 08:56:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWuk-0006Np-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:55:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWvU-0007XA-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:56:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWto-0007DZ-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWtl-0007D7-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWtk-0007D1-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnWwJ-0003qS-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HHD07543; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:53:43 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-91-76.inter.net.il [80.230.91.76]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CFV95515 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:53:42 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stephen Berman In-reply-to: <87vexo4r1e.fsf@escher.local.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:26:37 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47930 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:26:37 +0100 > > To my embarrassment, I misidentified the file: it wasn't actually an > auto-save file, but an auto-save-list file; its absolute file name is > /home/steve/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-931-escher.local.home~ That figures. However, only its beginning looked like an auto-save-list, the rest was just garbage. I suppose Emacs crashed before it had a chance to close the file, or else (which sounds more probable) Emacs data structures were severely corrupted, which both caused the crash and corrupted the auto-save-list buffer.