> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:42:14 -0700 > From: "David Masterson (damaster)" <damas...@cisco.com> > > 1. EmacsClient starts and says "Waiting for Emacs server to start". > 2. Emacs starts and brings up the normal Emacs window. > 3. However, Emacs reports "The directory > `c:/Users/damaster/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/server' is unsafe" > > > > What does that mean and how can I fix it?
It means that directory is not owned by you. This usually happens with the Administrator user, or if you install Emacs under a different user than the one under which you later run it. To see if this is the case, compare your user name with what the following displays inside Emacs: M-: (file-attributes "c:/Users/damaster/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d" 'string) RET To fix this, it is usually enough to remove the directory c:/Users/damaster/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d (with all its subdirectories), and then start Emacs normally (not through emacsclient). Emacs then should recreate the directory with your normal credentials. If the above fails, manually change the owner of the above directory to your user (e.g., by right-clicking on it in Explorer and selecting Properties->Security), again after removing all its contents; then restart Emacs.
