# Ignore emacs backup files

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373 "2022-06-22T02:33:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![tmgreen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/tmgreen/32/785_2.png) [@tmgreen](https://zola.discourse.group/u/tmgreen)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373/1 "2022-06-22T02:33:28Z")

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Hi, as an Emacs user, I generate a lot of back files in amongst my content, so I’m constantly see annoying warning messages like this in my `zola serve` console:

```auto
Expected a section filename, got `_index.md~`. Allowed values: `["_index.md"]`

```

Is there any way to tell zola to ignore these files?

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373/2 "2022-06-22T07:08:59Z")

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We should really restrict the glob of loading content to `.md` files, that should solve that issue.

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**Author:** ![tmgreen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/tmgreen/32/785_2.png) [@tmgreen](https://zola.discourse.group/u/tmgreen)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373/3 "2022-06-22T13:39:33Z")

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That would be great, thank you!

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373/4 "2022-06-22T18:21:40Z")

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Weird, there’s already a check for that. Is it actually a folder that emacs is creating and not a file?

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**Author:** ![tmgreen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/tmgreen/32/785_2.png) [@tmgreen](https://zola.discourse.group/u/tmgreen)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 3:56am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373/5 "2022-06-23T03:56:24Z")

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No it’s just a normal file.

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 6:26am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/ignore-emacs-backup-files/1373/6 "2022-06-23T06:26:19Z")

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Ok I see where the issue is