From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "tom t/LA" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: solution: Vista/writing to C: not allowed Date: 2 Apr 2007 20:35:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1175571312.654794.64970@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175571434 15533 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2007 03:37:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 03:37:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 05:37:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HYZpZ-0008Um-Bf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYZsf-0007vO-AO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:40:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.80.86.76 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1175571314 31881 127.0.0.1 (3 Apr 2007 03:35:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 03:35:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.80.86.76; posting-account=hcbw6w0AAACFQFGr6aTulqWpbRLtYmAL Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146780 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42384 Archived-At: under Windows Vista writing to the C:/ directory is restricted, and Emacs 21.3.1 got errors trying to save .emacs-places and .emacs. A solution to this is to define an environment variable HOME with the value /users/MYNAME. Then emacs looks in this directory for .emacs, .emacs-places, etc. to define an environment variable go to System Control Panel, Advanced System Settings.