recover are present in Emacs buffers. You should then save them. Only
this---saving them---updates the files themselves.
+ As a last resort, if you had buffers with content which were not
+associated with any files, or if the autosave was not recent enough to
+have recorded important changes, you can use the
+@file{etc/emacs-buffer.gdb} script with @code{gdb} to retrieve them
+from a core dump--provided that a core dump was saved, and that the
+emacs executable was not stripped of its debugging symbols.
+
@node Emergency Escape
@subsection Emergency Escape