From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Disappearing EMAC files Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:40:07 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085750767 18300 80.91.224.253 (28 May 2004 13:26:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:26:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 28 15:25:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BThMw-0007A0-00 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 15:25:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTh14-0001ge-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 May 2004 09:03:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.m-online.net!news.space.net!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1085748185 91442 193.149.49.134 (28 May 2004 12:43:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 May 2004 12:43:05 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123541 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18838 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18838 Michele Reniff 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. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").