Disappearing EMAC files

Disappearing EMAC files

[Michele Reniff]

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I am tech support for the Lundquist College of Business and one of the faculty here uses EMACs.  His .emacs and assorted other files stored on the root drive of C have simply disappeared.  Lucky, he has a backup copy of the .emacs file and was able to continue working.  I was wondering if any other EMAC user has experience this phenomenon.



Michele Reniff (Hours:  7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) 
Charles H. Lundquist College of Business 
541-346-3326 cell: 541-228-1191
Chiles Building 3rd floor, Room 326
mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu 



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Re: Disappearing EMAC files

[Kai Grossjohann]

"Michele Reniff" <mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu> writes:

> I am tech support for the Lundquist College of Business and one of
> the faculty here uses EMACs.  His .emacs and assorted other files
> stored on the root drive of C have simply disappeared.  Lucky, he
> has a backup copy of the .emacs file and was able to continue
> working.  I was wondering if any other EMAC user has experience this
> phenomenon.

Emacs does not normally delete that file, so it must have been
something or someone else.

People may wish to set the HOME environment variable to some safe,
backed-up, directory, and put the .emacs file into that directory.

>From within Emacs, C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET opens the file that Emacs
will load during startup.  This can be used to check whether the
environment variable is set properly, for example.

Kai

Re: Disappearing EMAC files

[Friedrich Dominicus]

"Michele Reniff" <mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu> writes:

> I am tech support for the Lundquist College of Business and one of the faculty
> here uses EMACs.  His .emacs and assorted other files stored on the root drive
> of C have simply disappeared.  Lucky, he has a backup copy of the .emacs file
> and was able to continue working.  I was wondering if any other EMAC user has
> experience this phenomenon.
Well with high proabability someone has deleted that file. Now it's
up to you to find him.

Regards
Friedrich

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Re: Disappearing EMAC files

[Alan Mackenzie]

Michele Reniff <mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu> wrote on Wed, 26 May 2004
15:21:00 -0700:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

All due respect, and so on, but what's somebody who's a "tech support"
doing posting in superfluous irritating spammish formats?

> I am tech support for the Lundquist College of Business and one of the
> faculty here uses EMACs.  His .emacs and assorted other files stored on
> the root drive of C have simply disappeared.  Lucky, he has a backup
> copy of the .emacs file and was able to continue working.  I was
> wondering if any other EMAC user has experience this phenomenon.

"Emacs", please, with an "s".  The most usual plural, not in common use,
is "Emacsen".

No, I've never experienced anything like this, apart from when I've
deleted files.  I've no reason to believe Emacs has deleted the guy's
files, and every reason to believe it hasn't.  Still, he's savvy enough
to have kept a backup, so no great damage has been done.

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Re: Disappearing EMAC files

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ncq69c.q5.ln@acm.acm>, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> Michele Reniff <mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu> wrote on Wed, 26 May 2004
> 15:21:00 -0700:
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> 
> All due respect, and so on, but what's somebody who's a "tech support"
> doing posting in superfluous irritating spammish formats?

Given his obvious total lack of knowledge about EMAC [sic], I'll wager 
he's a Windows tech support guy.  Windows folks seem to like posting and 
emailing in HTML format (they also have an annoying habit of mailing 
Word documents even when a plain text would be fine).

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