Re: ensure safe directory failing

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:30:06 -0500
>> From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
>>
>>>>   M-: (file-attributes "c:/emacs/.emacs.d" 'integer) RET
>> (t 1 544 513 (19846 9844) (19845 18237) (19843 65123) 0 "drwxrwxrwx" nil
>> (4608 1 . 53735) (55444 . 23564))
>>
>> Not void function, as I thought.
>>
>>
>>> void function
>>>
>>>>   M-: (user-uid) RET
>>> 1000 (#o1750, #x3e8)
> 
> Then this is not the case which the patch was supposed to solve.
> 
> What you need to do is this:
> 
>  . exit Emacs
> 
>  . rename the c:\emacs\.emacs.d directory
> 
>  . start Emacs with "emacs -Q"
> 
>  . exit Emacs
> 
> This should create c:\emacs\.emacs.d with the right credentials.  You
> should be able to see that with the same command as before:
> 
>  M-: (file-attributes "c:/emacs/.emacs.d" 'integer) RET

After carrying out above instructions it now shows:

(t 1 544 513 (19846 19183) (19846 19183) (19846 19063) 0 "drwxrwxrwx"
nil (8192 1 . 57574) (55444 . 23564))


and same Backtrace.

???

I notice that there is a folder for an orphaned user (I think)under
DocumentsandSettings last touched in july 2008. This username doesn't
appear anywhere in CtlPanel > Admin > Users. Maybe it's in the registry
somewhere. Anyway it hasn't caused any problems.





> 
> It should now show 1000, which is your Windows user ID, instead of
> 544, as the 3rd member of the list it displays.  If this succeeds, you
> can invoke Emacs as usual, and the server should start without the
> warning.  If you have something important in the old .emacs.d, you can
> now copy it to the new .emacs.d.
>