On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:37, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > During an open vi session on a source file, the bossman lost a months > worth of work during a power failure. When power was restored he copied > a .swp file back thinking it was an older version of the source. > > I feel really dumb asking this; but is there any think I can attempt for > data recovery on a FC3/ext3 machine to try and recover this file??? Did you try 'vi -r' to read the .swp file? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx