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Upon editing any file I am now seeing this:

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In order to isolate this I have deleted all of the contents of ~/.vim or ~/.vimrc. I then consulted note here and recreated the `~/.vimrc with these contents:

if empty(glob('~/.vim/tmp'))
    silent !mkdir -p ~/.vim/tmp
endif
set directory=$HOME/.vim/tmp

That also does not resolve this issue for me.

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  • It's hard to say why this fails. It may be a hard drive or filesystem issue. First, please try if you see this error message without that snippet from your vimrc, e.g. try using vim --clean. If it does, check what is wrong with $HOME/.vim/tmp Perhaps you already have too many swapfiles there? So try with an empty one
    – Christian Brabandt
    May 26, 2022 at 8:00
  • @ChristianBrabandt I had tried after removing everything to do with vim already including that directory
    – WestCoastProjects
    May 26, 2022 at 12:25

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The following portion of a ~/.vimrc is working for me .

" tell vim where to put swap files
if empty(glob('~/.vim/tmp'))
    silent !mkdir -p ~/.vim/tmp
endif
set dir=/Users/steve/.vim/tmp
set backupdir=/Users/steve/.vim/tmp
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