How to open a new file in gvim? E303: Unable to open swap file

Question

I use gvim on Windows. How can I open a new file?

I have tried with :e ~\mypath\myfile.txt but I get this error message:

E303: Unable to open swap file for "C:\Users\Jonas\mypath\myfile.txt", recovery impossible

How to open a new file using gvim on Windows?

Answer 1

This seem to be a bug. From Vim E303: Unable to open swap file for "[No Name]", recovery impossible, I should add this to _gvimrc:

set directory=.,$TEMP

And it worked for me.