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From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: Disappearing EMAC files
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:04:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k6yxnfjh.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9F7DB6FF6C9FB34EB8536404FCDF2FAF0138A343@mail.lcb.uoregon.edu

"Michele Reniff" <mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu> writes:

> I am tech support for the Lundquist College of Business and one of
> the faculty here uses EMACs.  His .emacs and assorted other files
> stored on the root drive of C have simply disappeared.  Lucky, he
> has a backup copy of the .emacs file and was able to continue
> working.  I was wondering if any other EMAC user has experience this
> phenomenon.

Emacs does not normally delete that file, so it must have been
something or someone else.

People may wish to set the HOME environment variable to some safe,
backed-up, directory, and put the .emacs file into that directory.

>From within Emacs, C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET opens the file that Emacs
will load during startup.  This can be used to check whether the
environment variable is set properly, for example.

Kai

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-28  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-26 22:21 Disappearing EMAC files Michele Reniff
2004-05-28  8:04 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.7884.1085710086.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-28  5:00 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2004-05-28  7:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-05-28 15:49   ` Barry Margolin

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