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Yary Hluchan wrote:
> I'm running Emacs 23 on a laptop, and the laptop sometimes loses power.
> That's not the problem.
>
> When I boot and restart Emacs, I go to the File menu > "Recover Crashed
> Session", it brings up a window like so:
>
> Move to the session you want to recover,
> then type C-c C-c to select it.
>
> You can also delete some of these files;
> type d on a line to mark that file for deletion.
>
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/Application
> Data/.emacs.d/auto-save-list:
> wildcard .saves-*
> total used in directory 4 available 21959352
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Yary None 778 09-02 16:13 .saves-360-POPNOTE~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Yary None 382 08-15 09:21 .saves-1648-POPNOTE~
> ...
>
> I put the cursor on the first line (".saves-492-POPNOTE~") and hit
> C-c C-C, and get this error in *Messages*:
>
> No files can be recovered from this session now
>
> That error happens for any of the .saves files
>
> The contents of .saves-360-POPNOTE~:
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming
> projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/process_files_new.php
> c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming
> projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#process_files_new.php#
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming
> projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/local_file.php
> c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming
> projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#local_file.php#
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming
> projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/filepath.php
> c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming
> projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#filepath.php#
>
> The files exist, the temp files do not exist- in this case, I had
> saved all my work.
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
> of 2008-08-24 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include'
>
> Important settings:
> value of $LC_ALL: nil
> value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
> value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
> value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
> value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
> value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
> value of $LC_TIME: nil
> value of $LANG: ENU
> value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
> locale-coding-system: cp1252
> default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Fundamental
>
> Minor modes in effect:
> server-mode: t
> diff-auto-refine-mode: t
> recentf-mode: t
> partial-completion-mode: t
> tooltip-mode: t
> mouse-wheel-mode: t
> noticeable-minibuffer-prompts-mode: t
> menu-bar-mode: t
> file-name-shadow-mode: t
> global-font-lock-mode: t
> font-lock-mode: t
> blink-cursor-mode: t
> global-auto-composition-mode: t
> auto-composition-mode: t
> auto-encryption-mode: t
> auto-compression-mode: t
> line-number-mode: t
> transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <file>
> <recover-session> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
> <down> d d d d d d d d d d d d x y e s <return> <up>
> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-c C-c <up> C-c C-c <up>
> C-c C-c C-c C-c <up> <up> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <escape> x r e p o <tab> t - e <backspace> <backspace>
> <backspace> r t - e m <tab> <return>
>
> Recent messages:
> 5 of 12 deletions
> 6 of 12 deletions
> 7 of 12 deletions
> 8 of 12 deletions
> 9 of 12 deletions
> 10 of 12 deletions
> 11 of 12 deletions
> 12 of 12 deletions
> 12 deletions done
> No files can be recovered from this session now [4 times]
>
>
>
