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From: "Loyall, David" <david.loyall@nebraska.gov>
To: Lawrence Bottorff <galaxybeinglambda@gmail.com>,
	"emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-check.org confusion
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:15:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FCEE4469EE8B234199968ECA9B0661E208CD85AE@STNEEX10MB02.stone.ne.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOPJoVq+qJNQ43STX6jPcBaRjEgF-Gdb=iuPP710Ca0oPc6bdw@mail.gmail.com>

Well, to access the documentation about this:
	M-: (info "(emacs)Interlocking") <RET>

...This tells us that the file you saw in the directory is a lock.

The solution is to remove the lock, then try again.

But how do I, also an Emacs newbie, know that?  Well, lock files aren't peculiar to Emacs.  Have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#Lock_files

:)

How do you remove the lock?  Well, first close all your Emacs buffers (on any machine, anywhere) that are pointed at the org-check.org file.  Then see if the lock file is still there.  If it's there, and you're not editing the file in an Emacs buffer, than the lock is stale.  Manually delete it.  (Alternatively, Emacs has some user interface for doing this.  It is described in that info page ^^^.)

Incidentally, the #org-check.org# file is some sort of automatically saved backup.

Hope this helps,
--Dave

p.s. I have no idea what org-check.org is, but I presume that some org process normally writes to it, and in your case, it respected the lock, but didn't prompt you, or it did prompt you and you gave some answer other than "steal the lock".


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From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+david.loyall=nebraska.gov@gnu.org [mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+david.loyall=nebraska.gov@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Bottorff
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 15:42 PM
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [O] org-check.org confusion

Any details about how this is involved with this issue? I have an #org-check.org# in this directory too. Being totally a beginner with elisp hacking, I don't know how to trace out this behavior.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Christopher Schmidt <christopher@ch.ristopher.com> wrote:
"Loyall, David" <david.loyall@nebraska.gov> writes:
> Dear orgmode users: what does that represent?
    (info "(emacs)Interlocking")

        Christopher

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-29 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20 20:06 org-check.org confusion Lawrence Bottorff
2013-03-20 20:18 ` Loyall, David
2013-03-20 20:32   ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-03-20 20:41     ` Lawrence Bottorff
2013-03-29 22:15       ` Loyall, David [this message]
2013-03-30  7:38         ` Sebastien Vauban

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