How to clear o deactivate autosaved data in Emacs?

Recently, files take 2 seconds to show up when I load them as recent files. I realized that it only happen with a file: index.html, below it says the following:

 index.html has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file

SO, I assume that Emacs is loa开发者_开发技巧ding the autosaved files that's why it load slow

I added (setq auto-save-default nil) to my .emacs and I deleted my .recent folders but it still saying that there's saved data in index.html.

Any suggestions?

Depending on your settings, the auto saved file likely exists in the same directory as the file (index.html in this case). Something like #index.html#, I think.

EDIT: note that auto-save-default affects whether emacs writes auto-save files, not whether it uses any existing ones.