In all recent versions of xemacs v21.1, a file is created called ".saves-<pid>-<hostname>" in my home directory, each time xemacs auto-saves a file. The .saves file contains a list of the files that have been autosaved during the current xemacs session. The bug is that this file is never deleted by xemacs, so after a few months there are large numbers of these files sitting in my home directory. In GNU-Emacs, there is some code in the kill-emacs function in src/emacs.c that cleans up the .saves files, but the corresponding functionality appears to be missing from the xemacs version. The code from GNU-Emacs looks like this, and is called just before exit(). /* If we have an auto-save list file, kill it because we are exiting Emacs deliberately (not crashing). Do it after shut_down_emacs, which does an auto-save. */ if (STRINGP (Vauto_save_list_file_name)) unlink (XSTRING (Vauto_save_list_file_name)->data); Alec