[mew-int 2613] Re: Recovering drafts

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From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 2611] Re: Recovering drafts
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:34:52 +0900 (JST)

> Hello,
> 
> > I was in the middle of typing an email today when the power went
> > out. After it came back, I could see my half finished draft in the
> > file ~/Mew/draft/#1#. So I went to the +draft folder, selected message
> > #1, and hit E. I was now greeted with the message (from memory) "An
> > autosave file exists. Consider M-x recover-file." So I naïvely hit M-x
> > recover-this-file, and was told something along the lines of "this
> > file is not current". And after this, #1# was gone. Fortunately, the
> > lost draft was not long and easy to reconstruct, but it makes me
> > uneasy. Is there a trick to recovering from these situations?
> 
> Uhhhm... I will think how "E" cooperate recover-file.
> 
> --Kazu
> 
I think you should use find | grep in the ~/Mail/draft dir first.
unix tools always works fine.