Re: Backup Directory

This is what it states in the documentation

On Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 11:00:41 AM UTC-4 Riza Dindir wrote:

Please check your settings if you have enabled backups (and set the directory (backupdir) correctly. I am not sure, but you might set the permissions in the parent directories too.

Please also read the help files (:help backup). You must set backup and writebackup settings according to your needs. There is a table in the help (:help backup) that will tell you how to set these two settings.

Regards

On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM Christopher <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I understand the permissions issues. How should it backup to begin with, as I mentioned to someone else. I've started Vim and decided to write and then saved with a file name. I then exited Vim and there was no file in the .backup folder ?

On Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 1:00:45 AM UTC-5 jr wrote:

hi,

On Sun, 8 Mar 2026 at 03:28, Riza Dindir <riza....@gmail.com> wrote:
> As Eric Marceau pointed out, the double forward slash (//) in the path ("backupdir"=//etc/.backup) might be a problem.
>
> Also the double quotes in "backupdir"=//etc/.backup might be a problem. I would use "set backupdir=/etc/.backup" (without the double quotes) in the ~/.vimrc file or wherever your rc file is. I have something similar in my settings file: "set bakupdir=/tmp" (without the double quotes).
>
> The other thing might be that you have to create the /etc/.backup directory, and you might need write permissions to that directory. It is odd to use the /etc directory for this IMHO. It might be a good idea to move this to the home folder of your choosing (as Badli al Rashid has suggested). This can be something like ~/tmp/.backup or something else...

just to add, conventionally '/etc' is a system directory and a
non-root user would be permitted to read, not write.

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