For unknown reasons, every time I open a file with Windows 10 Gvim (installed in C:\Program Files (x86), the timestamp displayed by Windows is touched for the file I open with Gvim. I've checked both text and binary diffs, including the metadata file wrapper and nothing but the timestamp itself is changed. I think this means it is not a virus. However, it can cause me to lose some data when syncing as an older version of the file could be thought to be the newest version.
Thanks to the wonderful vim.fandom.com site I discovered *:scriptnames* and so I easily checked all the scripts I may have touched and this is not the problem. I went back and checked my vim install and found I had an old vim72 and gvim72 version installed. They didn't have uninstalls except uninsal.exe which only cleaned up the windows registry and small stuff and the uninsal.exe just directed me to delete the zip directory I originally used to install. But it may have left some artifacts because after reinstalling vim-win32-installer <https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases> for vim82 from vim.org, the problem still persisted. As for other possibilities, in my imagination, I wondered if new aggressive Windows Edge might be somehow lifting its leg on me because it unsuccessfully tried to keep me from re-installing vim as my default editor by locking me into going to the Microsoft store when trying to set the File Type, and I was shocked to see that C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\_vimrc is has been strongarmed into being a DOS file for Christ Sake. As you know, that doesn't work with my Cygwin bash scripts until I *set ff=unix* in _vimrc. (BTW this problem only started a week or two ago after a number of Windows Updates... coincidence?) SO HERE IS MY QUESTION Is there any way to identify what in Gvim touches my files when I open them with Gvim? And alternatively, if that doesn't work, is there any way to see if Windows is messing around with me without installing a bunch of administrative tools? Maybe there are some logs if I knew where to look. The only information I've been able to get so far is the observe that opening the file with Gvim at that exact moment changes the timestamp, which I can see happening by watching the directory where the file is by using a MS File explorer window. *Any clues about how I can fix this will be greatly appreciated.* Thanks ahead of time, JS -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/ba8f666c-2829-4ec3-932f-394320465aebo%40googlegroups.com.
