Msg: Re: Autosave on Mac

Belated thanks for this. The command survived whatever Yahoo Mail thinks it's doing to my incoming text, and it ran in Terminal and listed the affected AutosavN.tmp files.

I also deleted Autosav1.tmp completely.

But still, distressingly, no new Autosav .tmp files. Last one was in February.

Settings.dfl includes BK=1, AOT=5,10 and AOP=C:\XY4\XY (where files are written and the old Autosav files are). There aren't any recent Autosav files elsewhere on the computer, just a few in a very old backup directory.

For the moment, I'm just remembering to SA and ST regularly. Quite the conundrum.

Jon Pareles

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:07:28 -0400

From: Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Autosave on Mac

As Carl says he's having internet access problems, the answer to the

question about the command is:

Open a terminal; navigate to the folder that contains the AUTOSAV1.TMP

file, and then paste into the terminal window:

for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do; chmod u+rw "AUTOSAV$n.TMP"; done

and press Enter.

But something else may be going wrong, and I can't guess what.

Meanwhile, please use Find Any File to find any other autosav*.tmp

files; they may be created somewhere you don't expect.