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Re: Disappearing EMAC files
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: Disappearing EMAC files |
Date: |
Fri, 28 May 2004 10:04:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Michele Reniff" <mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu> writes:
> I am tech support for the Lundquist College of Business and one of
> the faculty here uses EMACs. His .emacs and assorted other files
> stored on the root drive of C have simply disappeared. Lucky, he
> has a backup copy of the .emacs file and was able to continue
> working. I was wondering if any other EMAC user has experience this
> phenomenon.
Emacs does not normally delete that file, so it must have been
something or someone else.
People may wish to set the HOME environment variable to some safe,
backed-up, directory, and put the .emacs file into that directory.
>From within Emacs, C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET opens the file that Emacs
will load during startup. This can be used to check whether the
environment variable is set properly, for example.
Kai