From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: No files can be recovered from this session now
Date: 14 Mar 2004 08:02:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufzcc7yqg.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <404DF0DC.90801@bestof-inter.net> (no-reply@bestof-inter.net)
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:29:16 -0400
> From: no-reply@bestof-inter.net
>
> My computer crashed (not due to emacs) while I have lots of open buffers
> in emacs,
> so I reboot and launch emacs, then "Recover session". But when typing
> C-c C-c
> on the latest .saves-* file, I get the message
> "No files can be recovered from this session now"
>
> I could not find ANY information on what this could mean :
It means that Emacs cannot recover any files from that session.
> One innocent answer might be :
> - there are no unsaved files ! All has been saved before the crash
> (and the #...# files removed), no file has thereafter been modified.
That's one possibility, yes.
Another, worse, possibility is that there were unsaved files before
the crash, but their auto-save files are gone (e.g., because the
computer restart procedure erased them). Try looking in the various
lost+found directories.
> But then :
> - why do I have the ".saves-*" file, nonempty
> (listing all my open buffers, normal and #...# filenames),
> with modification/creation date just the time of the crash ?
If some of these files are precious to you, you should try looking
for them.
> Is this ".saves-" file not updated whenever a file has successfully
> been saved and not yet modified again ?
It could be, but probably the files were simply erased as I mentioned
above.
> "recover-file: Auto-save file
> /home/user/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/#.saves-20606-localhost~# not current".
> [the function "recover-file" went by default into this strange hidden
> subdirectory !]
It's not strange: that's where Emacs saves these files. See the
variable `auto-save-list-file-prefix'.
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