[OS X Emacs] Re: Aquamacs opens but nothing happens, will not quit - inelegant solution

[siemsen at ucar.edu]

Perhaps your problem is this (from my old notes to myself):

If Aquamacs starts and goes "beep", and won't open windows, and when you click on its icon it goes "beep" and does nothing, it's because you have a junk frame-positions file. Aquamacs remembers where your windows (frames) are. If you were using multiple displays, and had windows spread around, and now you only have one display, Aquamacs gets confused. The solution is to quit the brain-dead Aquamacs, delete the file named ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs\ Emacs/frame-positions.el, and restart Aquamacs.

-- Pete


On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Nathaniel Beck wrote:

> Blowing away the saved desktop and all the other files created on each close did the trick. But not a pretty solution. 
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> thanks 
> neal
> On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Nathaniel Beck wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> Disaster. Today (Tues)) when I went to open Aquamacs (2.2)I see the basic menu but nothing happens when I click on anything (either open a new buffer or trying to move to a buffer listed in Window or ANYTHING else). Then i cannot quit without do a force quit. I have restarted, reloaded A 2.2 and still nothing. I cannot recollect doing anything between yesterday  and today that would have changed anything.
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>> Any thoughts from anyone?
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>> thanks
>> neal
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>> Nathaniel Beck
>> Prof., Dept. of Politics. NYU
>> 19 W. 4th St., 2nd Floor
>> NY NY 10012
>> nathaniel.beck at nyu.edu
>> 2129988535
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> Yo
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