On Wed, October 13, 2010 3:53 pm, Neil Bird wrote:
>
>    I've been plagued for a while with hidden and undeletable files called
> cifsXXXX (XXXX being some 4-char hex string) on my Windows XP box's share;
> my only recourse to being rid of them is to reboot and then delete them.
>
>    I can't get anything but a filename from them, the file properties are
> mostly blank (no security tab, e.g.).  It's a share that I access from my
> CentOS Linux box using CIFS and vim;  the Linux side does show the files,
> but says 'No such file' whenever they're accessed (until I reboot the
> Windows box).
>
>
>    Anyway, I just did a reboot and thought to analyse the files this time.
> They are binary files, all starting with "b0VIM 7.0", so I reckon they're
> vim backup files.  I don't know why they're not the usual .*.sw? format
> (these do exist while editing).
>
>
>    I'm using the stick CentOS Vim of 7.0 (.109).  Any ideas what's going
> on?

I think, this issue has been solved with Vim 7.3. At least there used to
be an entry in the todo list, mentioning this behaviour and now I can't
find it. So you might need to try a newer Vim version.

regards,
Christian

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