* briangpowell . <briangpowel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Emacs periodically saves all files that you are visiting; this is called > auto-saving . Auto-saving prevents you from losing more than a limited > amount of work if the system crashes. By default, auto-saves happen every > 300 keystrokes, or after around 30 seconds of idle time. > > Suggest you try making your auto-save-interval variable much larger and see > if that helps
I had to disable auto-save because I'm using org-crypt which would leak sensitive information to my disk (+ git repository). I'm using real-auto-save instead. > Also suggest making smaller .org files when practical Way too late for that ;-) So far, I've found no one with bigger Org files. I plan to blog about small versus big Org files in the upcoming weeks. However, your suggestions are valid points for the general situation. -- get mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML into Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < Personal Information Management > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/pim/ Emacs-related > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/emacs/