Jeff> From: Jeff Mincy <jeff(a)delphioutpost.com&gt; Jeff> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:52:19 -0400 Jeff> Under 21.4.3 on windows (& cygwin), when I try to save my vm inbox I Jeff> have been getting: Jeff> Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~/%backup%~ Jeff> This did not happen under 21.1.13. Jeff> I tracked this down to backup-buffer in files.el that does: Jeff> (copy-file real-file-name backupname t t) Jeff> Under 21.4.3, when I do Jeff> (copy-file "c:/home/jmincy/INBOX" "c:/home/jmincy/INBOX.~3333~" t t) Jeff> I get Jeff> I/O error: No such file or directory, c:/home/jmincy/INBOX.~3333~ Jeff> Also in 21.4.3, the following works without error: Jeff> (copy-file "c:/home/jmincy/INBOX" Jeff> "c:/home/jmincy/INBOX.~3333~" t nil) Jeff> The problem seems to be with the processing of `keep-time' Jeff> argument, which appears to have been changed since 21.1.13 Jeff> (lisp_string_set_file_times vs set_file_times, and more Jeff> likely set_file_times has been changed). Hello Jeff, 21.5 CVS has this problem fixed. I hope Stephen will agree to merge back the fix into 21.4.4. Adrian Jeff> As a workaround, the following seems to work. Jeff> (when (equal emacs-program-version "21.4.3") Jeff> (defadvice copy-file (before smash-keep-time-21-4-3 first activate) Jeff> (setq keep-time nil))) Jeff> -jeff -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/