From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:03:20 +0800 Message-ID: <48B96138.30506@gnu.org> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> <87wshzpszz.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48B87A2D.3050406@emf.net> <8763pjqjrt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080830094003.GA2698@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220108705 25919 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 15:05:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Emacs Devel To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 17:05:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZS0r-0007OG-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:05:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRzt-0005Zx-AF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRzp-0005Zo-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRzn-0005ZY-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37335 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRzn-0005ZO-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]:11887) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZRzm-0006Ta-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:04:11 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 163811101/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-INTERNET-ACCEPTED/None/124.82.236.150 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 124.82.236.150 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AngBAFD+uEh8UuyW/2dsb2JhbAAItUSBaQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,297,1217804400"; d="scan'208";a="163811101" X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [172.16.0.12]) ([124.82.236.150]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 30 Aug 2008 16:04:06 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <20080830094003.GA2698@muc.de> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103268 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Aren't there effective file undelete programs for MS-Windows? There > certainly were for MS-DOS's FAT file system. > I don't know about effective, but there are NTFS undelete utilities. It was easier in the MS-DOS days, because there was only ever one process running that could touch the filesystem. But with a modern OS, even if you realise your mistake immediately there will be several background processes that might reuse the freed disk-space quicker than you can type undelete.