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How to open a new file in gvim? E303: Unable to open swap file

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I use gvim on Windows. How can I open a new file? I have tried with but I get this error message: E303: Unable to open swap file for "C:\Users\Jonas\mypath\myfile.txt", recovery impossible How to open a new file using gvim on Windows?

Error Output

:e ~\mypath\myfile.txt

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Solution 1 This seem to be a bug. From Vim E303: Unable to open swap file for "[No Name]", recovery impossible, I should add this to : Solution 2 To clarify the location of files and directories, which aren't immediately obvious, here is another sol…

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