I was once editing a file and wanted to test something. The test was meant to add a line at the end of the file, from outside Vim. All was fine, but instead of >> to append the output to the file, I wrote > to replace the file with the output by mistake.

If you happen to do something like that, the solution is:

:recover

This command only works if you have a swap file. If you do not have a swap file, the recover command will not work.

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