Trying the babel gnuplot the other day, I had trouble getting the results to C-c C-c to actually materialize in the place I'd given. Taking the example from the org-mode babel gnuplot page, (changing the location): #+begin_src gnuplot :exports both :file omnigraphics/omnig10.png reset set title "Putting it All Together" set xlabel "X" set xrange [-15:15] set xtics -15,2,15 set ylabel "Y" set yrange [-15:15] set ytics -15,2,15 f(x) = sqrt(x - 1) + 1 g(x) = x**3 h(x) = sqrt(-x - 1) + 1 plot f(x) w lp lw 1, g(x) w lp lw 1, h(x) w l lw 1 #+end_src The system was not creating the png in the given folder. Finally it occurred to me to look in another place where I'd previously been creating org-mode gnuplot pngs -- and there it was! I could do C-c C-c again and again and see new versions of the png being created each time in yesterday's folder, i.e., not the location given with :file. So the :file omnigraphics/omnig10.png was being blown off and org-mode internal had remembered where I'd previously created pngs and kept creating them there. I've tried to recreate this scenario with just the code snippet above -- fresh (non-daemon) emacs processes, changing the :file location each time -- and I've reproduced the problem sometimes. I've combed through my personal init els and it's definitely nothing I'm telling it. Strange. . . . LB