Re: [h-e-w] win2k non-stop retries to create directory on c:/.emacs.d

[Chris McMahan]

You might try setting the home environment variable to d:/ within your
emacs and see if that makes a difference.

(just an off -the-cuff guess)

 - Chris

Karklins, M writes:
>I don't know if this is a well known problem, but I didn't see any reference
>to it in the archives.
>
>I installed emacs 21.2 on a win2k machine on the "D:" drive without
>administrator rights.  When I run emacs, sooner or later emacs locks up the
>mini-buffer with repeated tries to create a directory at a location I don't
>have user rights.  The message I get is:
>
>Creating directory: permission denied, c:/.emacs.d
>
>When I try to terminate emacs in this mode, it always aborts abnormally.
>Has anyone seen this problem? and if so, what can I do about it?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Mat
>

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