Re: huge files in ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/

[Kevin Layer]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>>     I found a couple of bad files at home.  One is 1mb, the other 17mb.  I
>>     use 21.4.1 on Linux (FC6) there.  There are definite good lines
>>     interspersed in between the junk.
>> 
>> Are the good lines complete?  Do they end with newlines?
>> Do they start with newlines?  At what kinds of points in the normal
>> and valid sequence of input does the junk get inserted?

Yes.  No.  No.  Here's an example (the row of *'s is a delimiter):

**************************************** START
/home/layer/mail/inbox-spam/#1#„Ì#      +inbox-spam/1I´Z      D”é*     2D 
02/05 [=?iso-8859-1?B?]  =?iso-8859-1?B?TWFyaW5lciBQcml2YXRlIFNhbGU6IFNvdXR
geté*    1Dt02/05 ["NameBargain"  ]  Winter Special - $7.88 
Transfers!<<--------------B
ì
+         {%b} no msgsp/eœp  mh-searcher\p  Cached value of chosen search 
program.:Œ­      mh-search-function­   Function which executes the search 
program.ì¬  mh-search-next-result-functiont̬      Function to parse the next 
line of output.
Expected to return a list of three strings: name of the folder,
**************************************** END

then a lot more binary junk and then this:

**************************************** START
e/layer/mail/inbox-spam/
¤×#   /home/layer/mail/inbox-spam/#1#”×#      
\(:-[({]\)\(\W\|\'\))Î#      \(:-[/\]\)\(\W\|\'\)  ôÍ#     
\([:;]-?)\)\(\W\|\'\))78      ore--99379     
tf-save--99380tf-bound--99381uffer named *Summary*)dÍ#     
\(\s-\|^\)\(_\(\(\w\|_[^_]\)+\)_\)\(\s-\|[?!.,;]\)DÍ#  \(\
**************************************** END

I'm reluctant to just upload the (1mb) file, because I can clearly see
it contains personal/private information.