Comments on: gvim — E303: Unable to open swap file for “[No Name]“, recovery impossible

By: KevinO

KevinO — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:58:10 +0000

Thanks.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:02:15 +0000

Thanks for the fix, this has been pestering me since I installed windows 7.

Probably needs to be added into the next gvim installer also, would probably save alot of people world wide some time.

By: William Ward

William Ward — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:45:26 +0000

Like others, your post was helped me eliminate a nagging but minor issue. Thank you!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:52:59 +0000

Thank you so much! I use vim for little scratch files all the time and it was annoying to have my first edit command cut off with that error.

By: Indian

Indian — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:33:56 +0000

I’ve been too lazy to google for a fix for about 6 months now :S All it took was about 30 seconds thanks to your post. Seeing as to how this bug was causing me to wait around 10 seconds at least every time I opened a new Vim window, I could have saved around 10-20 minutes of my life if I’d only visited earlier

Mucho gracias!

By: Timothy Chen Allen

Timothy Chen Allen — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:33:23 +0000

Brilliant! This was making me angry (at least it was making me use VIM less). Thanks!

By: Josimar

Josimar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:26:12 +0000

Thanks. Worked wonderfully.

By: Charles Strahan

Charles Strahan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:27:00 +0000

Awesome! Thanks – that did the trick.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:04:06 +0000

Or more generically:

set directory=.,$TEMP " default dir for swap files

By: kizzx2

kizzx2 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:44:48 +0000

@Juan: Thanks! Fixed.