NFiles is a Common Lisp library to help manage file persistence and loading, in particular user-centric files like configuration files. It boasts the following features:

• Dynamic and customizable path expansion.

• Extensible serialization and deserialization.

• Cached reads and writes. When a file object expands to the same path as another one, a read or write on it won’t do anything in case there was no change since last write.

• (Experimental!) On-the-fly PGP encryption.

• Profile support.

• On read error, existing files are backed up.

• On write error, no file is written to disk, the existing file is preserved.

NFiles is a Common Lisp library to help manage file persistence and loading, in particular user-centric files like configuration files. It boasts the following features:

• Dynamic and customizable path expansion.

• Extensible serialization and deserialization.

• Cached reads and writes. When a file object expands to the same path as another one, a read or write on it won’t do anything in case there was no change since last write.

• (Experimental!) On-the-fly PGP encryption.

• Profile support.

• On read error, existing files are backed up.

• On write error, no file is written to disk, the existing file is preserved.