From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: knubee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: occasional failure to rename Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:35:24 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1189211724.820383.326400@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189212072 22557 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 00:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 00:41:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 02:41:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IToNr-0006gG-AL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:41:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IToNp-0005Wt-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:41:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.186.9.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1189211725 22939 127.0.0.1 (8 Sep 2007 00:35:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 00:35:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=218.186.9.2; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151803 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:47324 Archived-At: Usually I am able to rename files in dired, but sometimes emacs throws an error when I try to rename/move a file or directory: dired-rename-file: Symbol's value as variable is void: dired-backup- overwrite This does not happen all the time, but when it does the only solution I have found is to close out of emacs and restart. A web/newsgroup search does not turn up anything. Anyone know a) what could be causing this, and b) a less laborious way to resolve it if/ when it does occur?