I'm having problems keeping my 'bookmarks' file when I close emacs. I'm
saving it in my '/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/etc/' directory, but at some
stage in closing it gets deleted.

This is from my '.init.el' -

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(require 'bm)

(setq bookmark-default-file "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/etc/bookmarks")
(setq bookmark-save-flag 1)                        ;; autosave each change)
(bookmark-load bookmark-default-file t)

(setq bm-restore-repository-on-load t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

How can I get it to stay there all the time please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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