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Al Oomens <aloomens@outlook.com> writes:

> OK, very strange.
> .emacs.d/org-persist/ does not exist. It should be automatically created, correct?

Yup.

> Evaluating (file-writable-p "c:/Users/aloom/My Drive/home/.emacs.d/") returns "nil".
> However, I was able to visit a new file and save it to that directory:
> ...

What about (file-writable-p "c:/Users/aloom/My Drive/home/.emacs.d/org-persist") ?

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