Charles G Waldman <cgw(a)pgt.com&gt; writes: In fact it is done at dump time. They are not. This is an issue for all compiles of XEmacs. The dumpings users dir is always used. That whole part of auto-save.el is broken. (See the mapc's that come after it). That load time initialisation stuff should be moved to startup/init time. [thinks and looks at autosave.el] No: The expand file name must be ditched and auto-save-fixed-directory should simply make sure the directory exist before writing. l'll make a patch jan