[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 1"""
 date="2015-11-30T19:51:45Z"
 content="""
Well, if your system is crashing, the deletion of the file might not be
reflected on the disk or something.

It is true that, when git-annex is installed via the standalone tarball, it
will try to install the autostart file whenever the assistant is started.
But something has to cause the assistant to start, and if you deleted the
autostart file, it wasn't that .. so what was it?
"""]]