Re: [h-e-w] 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" fails "No files can be recovered"

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

This seems like a possible bug in Emacs. Please try the unpatched
version of Emacs and report it as a bug if the problem exists there.
Otherwise report back here.

Yary Hluchan wrote:
> I'm running Emacs 23 on a laptop, and the laptop sometimes loses power.
> That's not the problem.
> 
> When I boot and restart Emacs, I go to the File menu > "Recover Crashed
> Session", it brings up a window like so:
> 
>  Move to the session you want to recover,
>  then type C-c C-c to select it.
> 
>  You can also delete some of these files;
>  type d on a line to mark that file for deletion.
> 
>   c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/Application 
> Data/.emacs.d/auto-save-list:
>   wildcard .saves-*
>   total used in directory 4 available 21959352
>   -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None 778 09-02 16:13 .saves-360-POPNOTE~
>   -rw-rw-rw-  1 Yary None 382 08-15 09:21 .saves-1648-POPNOTE~
> ...
> 
> I put the cursor on the first line (".saves-492-POPNOTE~") and hit
> C-c C-C, and get this error in *Messages*:
> 
> No files can be recovered from this session now
> 
> That error happens for any of the .saves files
> 
> The contents of .saves-360-POPNOTE~:
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming 
> projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/process_files_new.php
> c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming 
> projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#process_files_new.php#
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming 
> projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/local_file.php
> c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming 
> projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#local_file.php#
> c:/Documents and Settings/Stephen Edwards/My Documents/programming 
> projects/API/brocade/src/mantis-trunk/phase3/filepath.php
> c:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Edwards\My Documents\programming 
> projects\API\brocade\src\mantis-trunk\phase3\#filepath.php#
> 
> The files exist, the temp files do not exist- in this case, I had
> saved all my work.
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2008-08-24 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include'
> 
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: ENU
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: cp1252
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
> 
> Major mode: Fundamental
> 
> Minor modes in effect:
>   server-mode: t
>   diff-auto-refine-mode: t
>   recentf-mode: t
>   partial-completion-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   noticeable-minibuffer-prompts-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   global-auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
> 
> Recent input:
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <file> 
> <recover-session> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
> <down> d d d d d d d d d d d d x y e s <return> <up> 
> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-c C-c <up> C-c C-c <up> 
> C-c C-c C-c C-c <up> <up> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <escape> x r e p o <tab> t - e <backspace> <backspace> 
> <backspace> r t - e m <tab> <return>
> 
> Recent messages:
> 5 of 12 deletions
> 6 of 12 deletions
> 7 of 12 deletions
> 8 of 12 deletions
> 9 of 12 deletions
> 10 of 12 deletions
> 11 of 12 deletions
> 12 of 12 deletions
> 12 deletions done
> No files can be recovered from this session now [4 times]
> 
> 
>