Crashing Emacs, Auto Save Data and org-mode Links

Crashing Emacs, Auto Save Data and org-mode Links

[Esben Stien]

When emacs crashes, it leaves behind auto save files. This is all fine
and dandy. 

However, after you've started emacs after a crash and you hit an
org-mode link, org-mode opens all kinds of files from everywhere, really
fast, because it's looking for the ID of the org-mode link.

The scanning actually opens the files and you are not really notified about
what files has been opened and what files needs a M-x
recover-this-file. 

You get a list in the *Messages* buffer and this list can be really long
if you've not saved your work.

What is the proper procedure after a crash?

Is there some way to scan directories for auto save files and somehow
clean up?; ie, to get a diff between the actual file and the auto save
file. 

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Re: Crashing Emacs, Auto Save Data and org-mode Links

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Esben Stien <b0ef@esben-stien.name> writes:

> When emacs crashes, it leaves behind auto save files. This is all fine
> and dandy. 
>
> However, after you've started emacs after a crash and you hit an
> org-mode link, org-mode opens all kinds of files from everywhere, really
> fast, because it's looking for the ID of the org-mode link.
>
> The scanning actually opens the files and you are not really notified about
> what files has been opened and what files needs a M-x
> recover-this-file. 
>
> You get a list in the *Messages* buffer and this list can be really long
> if you've not saved your work.
>
> What is the proper procedure after a crash?
>
> Is there some way to scan directories for auto save files and somehow
> clean up?; ie, to get a diff between the actual file and the auto save
> file. 


Try `recover-session' -- my understanding is that a list of all valid
auto save files is kept (in my case in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list), and
when you come back up after a crash you can do a bulk recover with that
command.

Re: Crashing Emacs, Auto Save Data and org-mode Links

[Esben Stien]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Try `recover-session' -- my understanding is that a list of all valid
> auto save files is kept (in my case in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list), and
> when you come back up after a crash you can do a bulk recover with that
> command.

I got that aswell: 

-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet  5277 2013-09-10 20:56:56.030306325 +0200 .saves-12704-quasar.esben-stien.name~
-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet 29063 2014-04-18 20:51:54.100770587 +0200 .saves-13077-quasar.esben-stien.name~
-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet 13671 2013-09-30 03:19:07.666046386 +0200 .saves-26893-quasar.esben-stien.name~
-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet   208 2014-04-19 16:08:44.049977607 +0200 .saves-27060-quasar.esben-stien.name~
-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet   606 2014-04-19 17:13:25.497603057 +0200 .saves-27517-quasar.esben-stien.name~
-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet   152 2013-08-18 03:42:03.727005944 +0200 .saves-2859-quasar.esben-stien.name~
-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet  9908 2014-03-18 10:26:47.128657746 +0100 .saves-31482-quasar.esben-stien.name~
-rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet    76 2013-08-18 04:38:22.834018391 +0200 .saves-4524-quasar.esben-stien.name~

If I cat them and run it through wc -l, I get 1200

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Re: Crashing Emacs, Auto Save Data and org-mode Links

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Esben Stien <b0ef@esben-stien.name> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Try `recover-session' -- my understanding is that a list of all valid
>> auto save files is kept (in my case in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list), and
>> when you come back up after a crash you can do a bulk recover with that
>> command.
>
> I got that aswell: 
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet  5277 2013-09-10 20:56:56.030306325 +0200 .saves-12704-quasar.esben-stien.name~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet 29063 2014-04-18 20:51:54.100770587 +0200 .saves-13077-quasar.esben-stien.name~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet 13671 2013-09-30 03:19:07.666046386 +0200 .saves-26893-quasar.esben-stien.name~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet   208 2014-04-19 16:08:44.049977607 +0200 .saves-27060-quasar.esben-stien.name~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet   606 2014-04-19 17:13:25.497603057 +0200 .saves-27517-quasar.esben-stien.name~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet   152 2013-08-18 03:42:03.727005944 +0200 .saves-2859-quasar.esben-stien.name~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet  9908 2014-03-18 10:26:47.128657746 +0100 .saves-31482-quasar.esben-stien.name~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 b0ef leet    76 2013-08-18 04:38:22.834018391 +0200 .saves-4524-quasar.esben-stien.name~
>
> If I cat them and run it through wc -l, I get 1200

Well you only use the most recent one...