On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:44 PM, KC Cheng <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using vim on Windows 7 and found a very odd problem.
> For example, under DOS prompt, I can use command:
>
>    vim c:\windows\abc.txt
>
> to edit the file abc.txt.  However,
>
>    dir c:\windows\abc.txt
>
> show me file not found !!!
> and I run
>
>    vim c:\windows\abc.txt
>
> again, everything I put in abc.txt is still there !!!???
> Does vim use some cache directory ??  What's the problem here ??
>

​Are you running a 32-bit Vim.exe under 64-bit Windows?
This is probably WoW64 File System Redirection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64​

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