@madara-san said in update notepad++:
Your post is a combination of summarizing what had already been said above (including what was linked in the official User Manual), and misinformation. If you don’t have anything accurate and new to add, you might want to avoid posting it.
Future readers, to correct mistakes made by @madara-san :
Click on the “Help” menu in the top menu bar.
No default translation of Notepad++ has a menu named Help. The menu is actually labeled with a question mark (?). To say otherwise only confuses newbies.
If a new version is available, Notepad++ will prompt you to download and install it.
“Check for Updates” will not always show a new version. As the manual explains (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/upgrading/), until the developer triggers auto-update for a new version, no amount of “check for updates” will show that there’s a new version available, even if you can manually download a new version from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ . The reasoning is described in the user manual. (For example, the website currently has through v8.5.2, but the last auto-update version that “Check for Updates” will see is 8.4.8.)
Note that you will need to manually transfer any settings or plugins you had in the previous version to the new version after installation.
That is false. The Notepad++ installer / updater does not delete your old settings from %AppData%\Notepad++ , and it does not reset them; any settings you had for a previous version in the standard location will still be in effect for the newly-installed version, unless you deleted the previous settings yourself.
(The statement, while false for a normal installation, is misleadingly true for the portable version: true, in that unzipping a new portable zip into a new folder will obviously not keep your settings from some other portable or installed copy – that is rather the point of the portable, after all – but misleading, in that there is no “installer” if you are using the portable zip.)