From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: winows emacs - portable app Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:58:47 +0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145469600 23161 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 18:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 19:59:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGxe-0007ez-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:59:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGxc-00056V-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGx5-0004xE-TU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGx3-0004wd-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWGx3-0004wY-Ll for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWGyB-0000CL-DZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-161-148.inter.net.il [84.228.161.148]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DZU79287 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:58:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (ryan.m.lists@gmail.com) 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:34483 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:47:38 -0400 > From: "Ryan Moszynski" > > this is the first time I've actually tried to use this on a lab > computer(where i don't have administrative rights) for an extended > period of time. After a couple of minutes emacs starts throwing this > error > > Creating directory: permission denied, c:/.emacs.d > > > the error of course, is because i don't have permission to create that > file there. It tries to create the directory in your HOME directory, so if you set HOME to a writable place, you should be done. That directory is the place where Emacs writes files that record the auto-save files open in your session, so that if Emacs crashes, it will, when restarted, be able to find out which unsaved edits to suggest you to recover. You can customize the option auto-save-list-file-prefix to force Emacs to write those files in a different place. Or set it to nil to disable the feature (I would recommend this only as the last resort).