On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 3:36:40 PM UTC-5, kwizzz wrote: > I am having troubles with vim (8.0.586 and 7.4 downloaded from www.vim.org) > on Windows 7. > > There seems to be a time stamp issue with swap files where swap files will not > > get removed after closing vim with swap files being 1 second newer than saved > > file; when trying to edit the file later, vim will complain with swap exists. > > Steps to reproduce behaviour: > > open a file (it does not matter if it exists or not) => vim will create > > corresponding swp file > do a short editing session (only a few (~4) seconds, not too long) and > > immediately save and close it => swp file stays in file system in about 10% > > (with a higher chance if hidden is set) > > > Behaviour can be reproduced with a higher probability, if you open vim with a > > file, do a :vimgrep/./* over about 20 or more text files in the folder, > > randomly navigate through the findings (:cn & co) and close vim => some > > opened (sometimes even simply grepped) files leave swap files. > > Tried vim -u NONE with same behaviour. > > Please let me know what to do to provide more information to you, as I am > > somewhat lost here... >
It could be a virus scanner preventing Vim from deleting the file if it has it open for scanning. It also could be a problem with a network share (you didn't say if any particular location is affected). You could try experimenting with the 'directory' option to place all your swap files in a different local folder, especially if you can put that folder in a virus scanner whitelist. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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_dev" 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/d/optout.
