The debug-on-error is set to t. If setq it to nil, it just raise and error warning, and will not stop backup. The ACE for a local file looks like: "O:S-1-5-21-1213861250-xx-xx-207145G:DUD:AI(A;ID;FA;;;SY)(A;ID;FA;;;BA)(A;ID;FA;;;S-1-5-21-1213861250-xx-xx-207145)(A;ID;FA;;;LA)" (xx masks some numbers) (S-1-5-21 is SECURITY_NT_NON_UNIQUE, SIDS are not unique.) I searched online and find that O:S-1-22 is a unix/linux mapped to windows by samba. And actually in my situation is that I have files in a linux server, and mapped it as network driver in Windows 7 (maybe by Samba). All such kind of files (what I can edit) have ACL/SDDL O:S-1-22-1-79077G:S-1-22-2-108D:P(A;;0x1e01ff;;;S-1-22-1- 79077)(A;;FR;;;S-1-22-2-108)(A;;FR;;;WD). On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Shuguang Sun > > Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:59:33 +0800 > > > > Local: Windows 7 > > GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-11-24 > > (backup-by-copying t) > > > > File is on a server which is mapped as network driver in Windows 7. It > seems a samba according to the SID > > below. > > The SDDL from file-acl is > > "O:S-1-22-1-79077G:S-1-22-2-108D:P(A;;0x1e01ff;;;S-1-22-1- > 79077)(A;;FR;;;S-1-22-2-108)(A;;FR;;;WD)" > > > > After I edited the file and write it, the backup meets error: > > > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Setting ACL" "Operation not > permitted" > > "c:/Users/username/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/! > drive_i!test_fixed_IA_time.r.~2~") > > set-file-acl("c:/Users/username/HOME/.emacs.d/ > autosave/Rfiles/!drive_i!test_fixed_IA_time.r.~2~" > > "O:S-1-22-1-79077G:S-1-22-2-108D:P(A;;0x1e01ff;;;S-1-22-1- > 79077)(A;;FR;;;S-1-22-2-108)(A;;FR;;;WD)") > > set-file-extended-attributes > > ("c:/Users/username/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/! > drive_i!test_fixed_IA_time.r.~2~" ((acl . > > "O:S-1-22-1-79077G:S-1-22-2-108D:P(A;;0x1e01ff;;;S-1-22-1- > 79077)(A;;FR;;;S-1-22-2-108)(A;;FR;;;WD)") > > (selinux-context nil nil nil nil))) > > backup-buffer-copy("i:/power/permutation_test_fixed_IA_time.r" > > "c:/Users/username/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/! > drive_i!test_fixed_IA_time.r.~2~" 438 ((acl . > > "O:S-1-22-1-79077G:S-1-22-2-108D:P(A;;0x1e01ff;;;S-1-22-1- > 79077)(A;;FR;;;S-1-22-2-108)(A;;FR;;;WD)") > > (selinux-context nil nil nil nil))) > > backup-buffer() > > basic-save-buffer-2() > > basic-save-buffer-1() > > basic-save-buffer(t) > > save-buffer(1) > > funcall-interactively(save-buffer 1) > > call-interactively(save-buffer nil nil) > > command-execute(save-buffer) > > Do you have debug-on-error set to non-nil? In backup-buffer-copy the > function set-file-extended-attributes is called inside > with-demoted-errors, so unless debug-on-error is non-nil, the error > should have been converted to a simple message, and Emacs should have > felled back to set-file-modes. Why isn't this happening in your case? > > Also, does the following fail with SOME-FILE being a local file? > > M-: set-file-acl("SOME-FILE" "O:S-1-22-1-79077G:S-1-22-2- > 108D:P(A;;0x1e01ff;;;S-1-22-1-79077)(A;;FR;;;S-1-22-2-108)(A;;FR;;;WD)") > RET >