Often when I restart my machine, I get my .zsh_hostory file truncated and this (garbage) left behind:
-rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 4 Nov 5 17:57 .zsh_history.2628 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Nov 5 17:57 .zsh_history.227 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Nov 24 12:55 .zsh_history.457 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 4 Nov 25 14:29 .zsh_history.6363 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 4 Nov 25 14:29 .zsh_history.5997 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 4 Nov 25 14:29 .zsh_history.1140 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Nov 26 00:30 .zsh_history.540 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Nov 26 00:30 .zsh_history.514 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 4 Nov 26 00:30 .zsh_history.1152 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 4 Nov 26 00:30 .zsh_history.1027 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 2 23:09 .zsh_history.957 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 3 09:47 .zsh_history.674 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 00:39 .zsh_history.430 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 00:39 .zsh_history.424 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 00:39 .zsh_history.405 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 15:31 .zsh_history.551 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 15:31 .zsh_history.507 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 15:31 .zsh_history.328 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 15:31 .zsh_history.545 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 15:31 .zsh_history.508 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 15:31 .zsh_history.372 -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3 Dec 4 15:31 .zsh_history.329 -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric eric 55281 Dec 5 23:22 .zsh_history I am trying to fix it with toggling these setting but they do not seem to be influencing the problem. export HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history export HISTSIZE=50000 export SAVEHIST=50000 # see if this helps HISTFILESIZE=8000 zsh Version: 4.0.4-3 Any ideas? -- Eric Smith