From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recovering files after a crash Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:23:08 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229215312 24027 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2008 00:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:41:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 14 01:42:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LBf4P-0001h4-JU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:42:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LBf3E-0004Rt-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:41:40 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19vfHQkwsQlgHIDr9ZSwZLwipIcDp5uiwsKi3bcwR2y4WZozFqTi0x8femkqdcEQOdGwn8a0eqoz9PH7g7gkx6uSbGE3y5may+3usQvjTClUrR7eEjHvO7dPxtNS0YpL1Y= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:23:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18j3WbwPS8yBt7hY/gw2zXTL5cBXbNVO8iPC9SOpL0atw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:BOVBnhVZidaxboPNfQe5Pt4H0u4= sha1:D3tInXgOiimeyfLee2iW9kmasRM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) XEmacs/21.4 (Educational Television, i686-pc-linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165265 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60594 Archived-At: "yannis antsos" writes: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:31 PM, yannis antsos wrote: >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: yannis antsos >> Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:30 PM >> Subject: Contacting Richard Stallman >> To: rms@gnu.org >> >> >> Hi Richard, >> >> I am sorry to directly bother you. I searched on groups.google and >> various web but could not find the answer. I opened an emacs in my >> windows XP a few days ago and pasted a number of info in the *scratch* >> and the windows yesterday night did autoupdate killing the process >> possibly. >> Any ideas where can I find the temporary file and what may it look >> like ? in the autosaves, there was an empty file corresponding to that >> name. i have not used the emacs from that account where it was opened >> for that scratch buffer. Empty file in the autosaves? I'm not sure what you mean, but if the backup file is empty, you have no backup. You should not edit in the scratch buffer, that's why its called a "scratch buffer". Any file that you edit will have a backup file. On crashes, there will also be a save file. The next time you start emacs and visit that file emacs will ask whether you want to edit the existing file or restore the backup.