At Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:38:21 -0500,
Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>
> I've been noticed extra lines in archive files.  I did a controlled test
> by creating a simple foo.org:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> * test item 1
>   this is a test item
> * test item 2
>   this is a test item
> ----------------------------------------
>
> I then moved to the first * and did C-x $ to archive.  That got me an
> archive file with an extra blank line near the top, and two blank lines
> at the end.  Moving to the second * got me three blank lines at the end
> of the archive file.   I expect only one blank line between the mode:
> line and "Archived entries", and I don't expect any extra blank lines
> beyond the items added.  (If there is a blank line added between entries
> when there wasn't one, that seems ok, but they accumulate on the end.)

I can confirm this for

Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.135.g84087)

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
 of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian

Best,
  -- David
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