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Active Protection causes problems with vim editing (SOLVED)

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Vim is an editor (like notepad). It has a feature which checks whether the current file has been modified by someone else before it saves (thus preventing 2 people editing the same file and "stepping on each other").

When this error condition occurs, vim provides error #w11 which reads "warning: the file has been changed since reading it."

When Acronis Active Protection is turned on, it somehow makes vim think this has happened so that whenever you save a file in vim (every time!), vim thinks that the file was modified by someone else.

I was able to consistently stop the behavior by turning Active Protection off. Eventually I registered the editor (gvim.exe) as a trusted service/application and that solved the problem.

I'm documenting the issue here so others can benefit from my frustration.

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Peter, welcome to these User Forums, and thank you for documenting this issue.  

Understand your frustration however, your problem is expected behavior from any whitelist based security product.  False positives detected must be added to the trusted apps/processes list so that they are excluded from security scans.  For more on AP look HERE