Steve> Just a quick one... Steve> What should I set to disable the creation of the '~/.saves-*' files? Steve> I tried setting 'auto-save-list-file-name' to nil, but that didn't Steve> work. According to recover-session[1] setting auto-save-list-file-prefix to nil should do the trick (untested). Hope This Helps, Adrian Steve> -- Steve> |---<Regards, Steve Youngs>-----------[GnuPG KeyID: 59E4C4B2]---| Steve> | XEmacs - It's not just an editor... | Steve> | It's a way of life. | Steve> |----------------------------------<mailto:youngs＠xemacs.org>---| Footnotes: [1] (defun recover-session () "Recover auto save files from a previous Emacs session. This command first displays a Dired buffer showing you the previous sessions that you could recover from. To choose one, move point to the proper line and then type C-c C-c. Then you'll be asked about a number of files to recover." (interactive) (unless (fboundp 'dired) (error "recover-session requires dired")) (if (null auto-save-list-file-prefix) (error "You set `auto-save-list-file-prefix' to disable making session files")) (dired (concat auto-save-list-file-prefix "*")) (goto-char (point-min)) (or (looking-at "Move to the session you want to recover,") (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (insert "Move to the session you want to recover,\n" "then type C-c C-c to select it.\n\n" "You can also delete some of these files;\n" "type d on a line to mark that file for deletion.\n\n"))) (use-local-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) (set-keymap-parents map (list (current-local-map))) map)) (define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-c" 'recover-session-finish)) -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;, http://www.xemacs.org