From: Jeff Mincy <jeff(a)delphioutpost.com&gt; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:17:12 -0400 I just noticed that my 'auto-save-hash-directory' variable is currently: "e:\\home\\andyp\\.autosave\\hash\\" And, I'm pretty sure that I didn't do that. Hi andy. The value appears to be coming from the xemacs executable: c:/PROGRA~1/XEMACS/XEMACS-21.4.3 i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs:...auto-save-hash-directory..../windows/home/andyp/.autosave/hash/... I'm going to hazard a guess that the andy made the windows xemacs releases and that his .emacs is getting into the build. Ummm, actually, I'm not using the cygwin version, I'm using the regular windows build. bash% fgrep andyp i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe e:\home\andyp\.autosave\hash\ early-packages..e:\home\andyp\.xemacs\ I don't think my prior guess is correct. I think this is happening because of the explicit expand-file-name in the defvar. The defvar should have a value of "~/.autosave/hash/" or (concat (or auto-save-directory auto-save-directory-fallback) "hash/") and should not expand the ~ file when building the executable. (defvar auto-save-hash-directory (expand-file-name "hash/" (or auto-save-directory auto-save-directory-fallback)) "If non-nil, directory used for hashed autosave filenames.") Also, I'm concerned about the early-packages..e:\home\andyp\.xemacs\ -jeff