Re: emacs.desktop non-functional

[Robert Thorpe]

ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> The minibuffer says "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID 
> 4074.  Using it may cause conflicts.  Use it anyway?"  PID 4074 doesn't 
> exist... probably from a crashed session.

Have you tried disabling Emacs --daemon and started Emacs the normal
way?  Does that help?

Have you tried renaming the old emacs.desktop files so the current Emacs
can't see them?  That could help.

BR,
Robert Thorpe