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title: "💭 E576: Error while reading ShaDa file: there is an item at posi..."
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date: 2024-11-16
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I hit an interesting error after updating my nvim plugins today.  I'm sti not even quite sure what a ShaDa file is, but I found min in my nvim state directory, unlike this issue that mentions it being in share.

The Error.

> Error while reading ShaDa file:

The Fix

``` bash
mv ~/.local/state/nvim/shada/main.shada ~/.local/state/nvim/shada/main.shada.bak
```

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