Re: symlinked folder splits in two !?

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:52

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Johnny <larssv@ce.chalmers.se> wrote:
 > I used ^H v some more and tried to understand the utility of 
 > file-precious-flag.  It appears to me that it is useful mainly 
 > when no backup files are kept, i.e., when make-backup-files is nil
 > or when backup-inhibited is t.  Otherwise the system crash during 
 > save, as described below, would take place only after the backup 
 > was made anyways.

The backup file is made the first time the file's buffer is
saved.  Changes and saves after that won't appear in the backup
file.  Therefore all the mail that has arrived since the backup
file was made and all the changes you've made to your mailbox
are at risk unless file-precious-flag is non-nil.  It is not
unusual for Emacs users to leave sessions running for days or
weeks.  A lot of mail could be at risk.  That's why the default
value of vm-folder-file-precious-flag is t.

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