and, I just found that I had the swap file disabled :(
On May 16, 2013, at 10:41 PM, ping <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/16/2013 8:48 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: >> On 2013-05-16, ping wrote: >>> guys: >>> My PC (ubuntu) just restarted by itself due to the (stupid) overheat >>> issue, again (I couldn't find a solution on that in a year..) >>> >>> but regardless, I had a file that I had been editing for quite a while. >>> all of a sudden the PC reloaded, now I'm wondering how can I recover >>> that file. >>> >>> I tried both of the following method , but none of them give me the >>> right file. >>> >>> one thing I've notice that if I'm in different folder, vim -r give me >>> different files. I tried to change to different folder and invoke vim >>> -r, but still failed to find the right one (per the timestamp) for >>> me... >>> >>> any other good ideals? >>> >>> maybe the last resort, do I have to grep from the whole harddisk for this? >>> >>> and, what's the best practice to solve this issue in the future >>> (lesson learned for me: always use a named buffer ) ? >>> >>> >>> 1) :recover >>> >>> Swap files found: >>> Using specified name: >>> 1. .swa >>> owned by: ping dated: Fri Jan 21 17:26:35 2011 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 14418 >>> 2. .swb >>> owned by: ping dated: Wed Dec 29 14:32:22 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: no >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 7874 >>> 3. .swc >>> owned by: ping dated: Fri Dec 17 17:05:02 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 2735 >>> 4. .swd >>> owned by: ping dated: Mon Dec 6 17:57:06 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 22947 >>> 5. .swe >>> owned by: ping dated: Fri Oct 29 08:15:23 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 20799 >>> 6. .swf >>> owned by: ping dated: Thu Dec 2 13:05:32 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 5370 >>> 7. .swg >>> owned by: ping dated: Sat Oct 23 11:38:18 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 4930 >>> 8. .swh >>> owned by: ping dated: Sat Oct 23 06:40:55 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 3119 >>> 9. .swi >>> owned by: ping dated: Sat Oct 16 23:28:22 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 13572 >>> 10. .swj >>> owned by: ping dated: Sat Oct 23 06:35:33 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 4930 >>> 11. .swk >>> owned by: ping dated: Tue Oct 12 10:15:05 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 13672 >>> 12. .swl >>> owned by: ping dated: Sun Oct 10 06:44:29 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 26777 >>> 13. .swm >>> owned by: ping dated: Wed Oct 6 00:44:37 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 29373 >>> 14. .swn >>> owned by: ping dated: Tue Oct 5 03:59:02 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 29373 >>> 15. .swo >>> owned by: ping dated: Sun Sep 26 09:34:44 2010 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 3824 >>> 16. .swp >>> owned by: ping dated: Fri Apr 20 15:59:12 2012 >>> file name: [No Name] >>> modified: YES >>> user name: ping host name: 640g-laptop >>> process ID: 17594 >>> In directory ~/tmp: >>> -- none -- >>> In directory /var/tmp: >>> -- none -- >>> In directory /tmp: >>> -- none -- >>> >>> Enter number of swap file to use (0 to quit): 0 >> After a quick look at Vim's memline.c, I think you are the victim of >> poor housekeeping and a bug in Vim. You may still be able to >> recover your files though. >> >> Note that your oldest swap file is named ".swp", the next oldest is >> named ".swo", and that pattern of decreasing last letters continues >> through your newest swap file which is named ".swa". Note, too, >> that your newest swap file is pretty old, from January 2011. I >> doubt that that is the last time you used an unnamed buffer. >> >> When Vim creates a swap file, it first tries the suffix ".swp". If >> that file exists, Vim decrements the last letter and tries again. >> When the suffix becomes ".swa" and that file exists, Vim then >> decrements the second-to-last letter, sets the last letter to "z", >> and tries again. It continues to look for swap file names that >> don't exists until it reaches the suffix ".saa", then gives up. >> >> Now, when Vim looks for swap files, it looks for files with suffixes >> matching the pattern ".sw?". This will find only the first 16 swap >> files. It ignores any swap files created with a second letter other >> than "w". >> >> That is a bug and needs to be fixed. Vim should either look for >> swap files whose suffixes match the pattern ".s??" or stop creating >> swap files with suffixes whose second letter is other than "w". >> >> To your problem: It is quite likely that the same directories that >> contain files named ".swa" also contain files named ".svz", ".svy", >> and so on. Those are valid Vim swap files, but Vim doesn't >> recognize them as such by those names. >> >> I would suggest first verifying that you do not care about the files >> matching the pattern ".sw?", then delete them. Then find the newest >> file with a name matching the pattern ".s??", rename it to ".swp", >> and try recovering it. >> >> Once you've recovered all your files, I would suggest that you close >> all instances of Vim and do a sweep of your file system using find >> (not grep) to find all your swap files. Again be sure that you do >> not need them, then delete them all. In the future, pay attention >> to swap files left over after crashes and keep them cleaned up. >> >> Regards, >> Gary >> > thanks Gary, I think I only undertsand some part of your explanations. > can you detail the steps for me to recover my file? > > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
