Vim swapfile issues: E72: Close error on swap or E200: *ReadPre autocommands made the file unreadable

[TiBeN]

I use my Google Drive mainly for storing notes *.md (Markdown) files. I have some issues editing theses files with Vim. With no ~/.vimrc file (no custom configuration), the file takes a lot of time to be opened with vim, then triggers the following error on close:

E72: Close error on swap

I think this is because Vim is not able to create the swap file. Now if i put set noswapfile into a ~/.vimrc file to disable swap file creation, Vim triggers the following error on file opening, leaving the editor with a blank page (file is not opened at all):

E200: *ReadPre autocommands made the file unreadable

I'm using Vim 7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04.

[cyanpencil]

I currently have the same error on Vim 8.1 with archlinux. Did you find a solution eventually?

[TiBeN]

Hi, I don't use this project anymore but google-drive-ocamlfuse : https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse. I don't have problems editing files in vim with this one.

[dsoprea]

I had actually originally tested the implementation, specifically, on VIM. There were issues with all of the opening and closing of so many different files all at once when first opening a single file, but they were cleared up. I'll take a look at this after clearing up some other issues.

It's not good etiquette to market for alternative projects from the issues of another.

[TiBeN]

@dsoprea, I'm sorry, my purpose was not to market anything but just answer to @cyanpencil question about the solution that worked for me. I have true respect for the work you do on this project and will probably take another look at it when this issue will be solved.

[cyanpencil]

It's not good etiquette to market for alternative projects from the issues of another.

Yes, in this case it actually is. He pointed out an open-source alternative that doesn't have this specific issue. This is not marketing, nor him nor the author of google-drive-ocamlfuse gain anything by having one more user, as it's an open source product: that's why it's called an alternative, not a competitor. It's just that google-drive-ocamlfuse fits better one particular use case (editing files with vim) ; I'm sure there are a lot of other specific use cases where your product is better. If anything, you should be thankful to @TiBeN: he opened this issue, pointing out a problem you weren't aware of; he also linked to a solution, as nothing stops you to go look in that project source code and see how they managed to avoid this issue.

@TiBeN Thank you for opening this issue. Thank you also for suggesting an alternative that doesn't have this issue.