Re: vim: recover an unnamed file

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

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