Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Christopher M. Miles" <numbchild@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 11:09:28 +0800
>> 
>> Recently I found in my user home directory, has lot of files named like:
>> 
>> #+begin_src sh
>> find ~ -maxdepth 1 -iregex ".*scratch.*" -print | head -n 8
>> echo ""
>> echo "Counted files number: "
>> find ~ -maxdepth 1 -iregex ".*scratch.*" -print | wc -l
>> #+end_src
>> 
>> #+RESULTS[(2023-05-23 11:18:44) aeb151fa27fcf758a5339bed5dc6617cb4f731ba]:
>> #+begin_example
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#UKK9EL#
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#4gsYFq#
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#ufEZRq#
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#XzrExY#
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#jGa6jP#
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#mweKr5#
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#mDmbh3#
>> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#CTbcQ7#
>> 
>> Counted files number: 
>>      321
>> #+end_example
>> 
>> - I tried search "scratch" in my Emacs config files, not found any clue.
>> - I tried to check out some minor modes like auto-save, savehist, etc. Not them neither.
>> - I tried to search "scratch" in my Emacs packages installation directory elpa/, still not found.
>> 
>> Does anybody have any clue how to debug this issue quickly?
>
> Do you have auto-save-mode enabled in the *scratch* buffer?  What does
>
>   M-: buffer-auto-save-file-name RET
>
> produce if you invoke it from the *scratch* buffer?  If it produces a
> non-nil value, you have somehow turned auto-save-mode in *scratch*.

I checked the *scratch* buffer status, indeed the `auto-save-mode` and
`auto-save-visited-mode` are enabled. And the value of variable
`buffer-auto-save-file-name` is: "/Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#lfiW0Q#"

Indeed found the problem! Hahaha, Thanks, Eli.

How to get around this problem? I disabled `auto-save-mode` now in my Emacs config now.

But I use git blame check out the `auto-save-mode` config lines, I
enabled it long time ago, but have not happened this problem before.

Anyway, problem solved now. Thanks a lot! Guys

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