Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:38:06 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: where is my text file? Message-ID: <20101122183806.GA65233@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101122090445.e305132e.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101121234910.GA28924@thought.org> <20101122090445.e305132e.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:49:12 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > > I was using vim to vreate a file and cleaned up file~. now when i > > type vim file I only see data? is there a w ay of recovering the > > file or did I screw ssomething up? > > Check if /var/tmp/vi.recover does contain something. Also > check if vim has been set to automatically create backups > (of files before they get overwritten). > > No joy. I think what happened was that i tried nvi and got an error message that the file was an 8-bit and would be truncated. I quit out of vi [[nvi], but the damage was done. --Oh well. I probly should give jmy shoulder a bre ak anyway. (******) > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org ethic
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