On 2013-05-17, ping wrote: > On 5/17/2013 1:36 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: > >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 > > > > I think for now there might be no way for me to get that back , > since I clearly had this line in my vimrc: > > setlocal noswapfile "disable swapfile, > > I think I intentionlly did it for some purpose before . > one thing is I don't want to generate all of those aux files in like > a system folder . > > but after reading > [more](http://my.opera.com/peterchenadded/blog/2008/12/27/gvim-7-1-swap-and-backup-files) > > I think I still should have the backup file turned on. > > backupdir=.,~/tmp,~/ > > so I should still have my backup for unnamed files right?
For your unnamed buffers, there were no files, so there was nothing to back up. 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.
