Plugin floods shada dir with empty temp shada files.

[woertsposzibllen4me]

My installation is on Windows altough I will run nvim in WSL/TMUX. Issue happens wether I run from PShell or Bash. When using WSL I run nvim.exe from the windows install, just to be clear.

PS C:\Users\ville\AppData\Local\nvim-data\shada> dir

    Directory: C:\Users\ville\AppData\Local\nvim-data\shada

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----         8/14/2024   6:02 PM          63397 main.shada
-a----         8/14/2024   1:33 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.a
-a----         8/14/2024   3:42 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.b
-a----         8/14/2024   3:43 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.c
-a----         8/14/2024   4:29 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.d
-a----         8/14/2024   4:31 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.e
-a----         8/14/2024   4:34 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.f
-a----         8/14/2024   4:36 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.g
-a----         8/14/2024   4:52 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.h
-a----         8/14/2024   5:03 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.i
-a----         8/14/2024   5:06 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.j
-a----         8/14/2024   5:07 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.k
-a----         8/14/2024   5:09 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.l
-a----         8/14/2024   5:24 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.m
-a----         8/14/2024   5:26 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.n
-a----         8/14/2024   5:28 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.o
-a----         8/14/2024   5:29 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.p
-a----         8/14/2024   5:35 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.q
-a----         8/14/2024   5:38 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.r
-a----         8/14/2024   5:39 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.s
-a----         8/14/2024   5:44 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.t
-a----         8/14/2024   5:51 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.u
-a----         8/14/2024   6:08 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.v
-a----         8/14/2024   6:08 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.w
-a----         8/14/2024   6:09 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.x
-a----         8/14/2024   6:10 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.y
-a----         8/14/2024   6:11 PM              0 main.shada.tmp.z

Reproduce: Acces any file past the Dashboard, exit.

Some exceptions seem to occur but I cannot pinpoint what makes a file not being created. A mostly sure-fire way to not have any temp file written is to: acces a buffer, do nothing, :w and quit. If changes are made, or if NO changes are made AND NO :w is issued, then a shada is generetated (mostly, it seems, really...)

Fix: Easily fixable (?) with:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("VimEnter", {
  callback = function()
    -- Path for Windows
    local shada_path = vim.fn.expand("C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\nvim-data\\shada\\main.shada.tmp*")
    vim.fn.system('del /Q ' .. shada_path)
  end,
})

If someone stumbles upon this ... altough I have absolutely no clue what the implications of doing this are. So far it seems only this plugin has been generating those files, and they are empty so... idk.