Hi,

i noticed that when using the org-mode clock persistence, the stored
clock data gets deleted when i start emacs and exit again without
turning on org-mode in between.

When looking at org-clock-persistence-insinuate it looks like org-clock
load will only run after org-mode gets started whereas org-clock-save
will always be called when exiting emacs:

(defun org-clock-persistence-insinuate ()
  "Set up hooks for clock persistence"
  (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-clock-load)
  (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook 'org-clock-save))

Not running org-mode-hook (i.e. not starting org-mode) thus does not
load clock data but org-clock-save overwrites any prviously saved data
when exiting emacs.

An easy fix for that would be to just add org-clock-load to e.g.
emacs-startup-hook. But this will only work if the code in
org-clock-load does not depend on any org-mode initialization code (or
would require loading org-mode).

So org-clock-save should probably check if org-clock-load has been
running during the current emacs session (or if clock persistence was
just enabled) and only then save clock data when exiting emacs. I tried
to add this to the code in org-clock-save:

diff --git a/lisp/org-clock.el b/lisp/org-clock.el
index c7ebbf8..c0fe4e6 100644
--- a/lisp/org-clock.el
+++ b/lisp/org-clock.el
@@ -1803,7 +1803,8 @@ This function is made for clock tables."
   "Persist various clock-related data to disk.
 The details of what will be saved are regulated by the variable
 `org-clock-persist'."
-  (when org-clock-persist
+  (when (and org-clock-persist
+             (or org-clock-loaded (not (file-exists-p
org-clock-persist-file))))
     (let (b)
       (with-current-buffer (find-file (expand-file-name
org-clock-persist-file))
 	(progn


/Kai