Any chance that your .vimrc or system defaults are keeping tilde backups, or that a copy got left in /tmp ? On Jan 31, 2012, at 2:36 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > the more likely recovery might be from ram. i exited vi after the rsync copleted. that vi process had the good copy. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120131/975f9ccc/attachment.html>