RE: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

[John Covici]

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<help-gnu-emacs-bounces+covici=ccs.covici.com@gnu.org> On Behalf Of Eli 
Zaretskii
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

> From: "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:03:41 -0500
> 
> 
> I do have some more information -- the .emacs starts to load, but it never 
> loads my .emacs.desktop which is in the same directory as the .emacs .  So, 
> how can I figure out what actually the .emacs is doing?  The only thing I see 
> in the *Messages* buffer is a message indicating that the save-place is 
> loaded, so this is what I need to do --somehow trouble the .emacs file and 
> see where it is going wrong.

How does your .emacs load the desktop file?

Fixed, just had to customize the correct variables i.e. where to search for the 
.desktop file -- not sure why it worked before.

Thanks.