On 2013-05-17, Ping wrote: > On May 16, 2013, at 10:41 PM, ping wrote: > > > On 5/16/2013 8:48 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >> 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. [...] > >> 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. > > thanks Gary, I think I only undertsand some part of your explanations. > > can you detail the steps for me to recover my file? > and, I just found that I had the swap file disabled :( That's unfortunate. Does that mean that you no longer need a better explanation? Regards, Gary -- -- 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.
