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> From: Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
> 
> I have the following in my .emacs
> 
> (setq
>  backup-by-copying t
>  backup-directory-alist
>  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
>  delete-old-versions t
>  kept-new-versions 3
>  kept-old-versions 2
>  version-control t)
> 
> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Do you have any real evidence that these files are created by Emacs?