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Hello Marcelo-Luz,

I assume I know what’s going on.
You start npp as elevated process (as seen by Admin mode : ON) but, I assume,
explorer was start with normal privileges. When you now, drag a file from explorer
to npp you get that kind of behaviour as windows doesn’t allow it.
In general, a process with lower privilege cannot drag something to a process with higher privileges. So, solution would be either to start explorer as admin as well or npp with normal privileges.

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Claudia

@Johan-Torstensson use e as the delimiter and allow nestung with numbers.

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Claudia

@Tha-BeatBeest

because you asking that kind of question I have to assume that you don’t know any programming or scripting language at all or
that you want to achieve something together with npp which you didn’t mentioned yet.
There is no one and only programming/scripting language. Every language has its strength and weakness and it simply depends on
what you really want to achieve.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello Bill,

Thanks for the FABULOUS assistance, Claudia!

your welcome.

One other sort-of-related thing: when I was first trying this out several weeks ago, I started with a portable installation, and changes I made >in style configurator were not persistent. Close NPP and reopen, and you’re back to the default style settings.

there are several portable versions out there and they behave differently in term how to store the data. I refer to the “official”
portable version, which is the zip or 7z file you can download on the npp homepage. When using this one, it works as long as
you use the same drive layout on all computers, which, I agree, isn’t normally the same.
The reason is, that, for example, the theme stored in config.xml uses the complete instead of a relative path.
You can change this by editing, with an editor other than npp, the config.xml directly but be aware that changing any other gui option would overwrite it again.
Request to change this has been already adressed.

So, current situation is like this

<GUIConfig name="stylerTheme" path="D:\ProgramData\notepad++\themes\Bespin.xml" />

but by changing it to

<GUIConfig name="stylerTheme" path=".\themes\Bespin.xml" />

it can be used on an usb stick without a problem.

Cheers
Claudia

@Anna-Maria-Stechbarth maybe you one checkout the compare plugin?

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Claudia

@Łukasz-Gry it has been reported that Snapshot/Backup functionality can cause that kind of problem.
To deactivate goto Settings->Preferences->Backup and uncheck enable session…

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Claudia

Hello Teo,

I can only refer to this.

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Claudia

Hello @Lucas-Gravano,

can you check if you have session snapshot and periodic backup enabled?
If so, can you check if there is a backup of your work in the notepad\backup directory?
Nevertheless, there are some reports, that this functionality seems to have caused some problems
so you might consider to disable it.
In addition, can you reproduce this behaviour? I assume Don and the devs would be interested to see
why and how this happened.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @Nozomu-Ezomori,

this depends highly on the real file content. I assume, from the given example, that it is a xml file, correct?
If so, a script, written in a language which can handle xml documents, can easily do it as long as the xml node
has an unique identifier like the parent node, or its node name etc…
I assume it can also be done by using the mighty regular expressions if there is a pattern which can be identified.

So, without having the real content, we can only give suggestions on how to solve it.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @رمزي-غساسنة

what about recording a macro?
Open the file

start recording press CTRL+END put in the line you want press save right click on tab and select close (optional) stop recording save macro with w meaningful name.

For the other documents you only need to open document and run macro.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @Jim-Reid,

thank you for pointing out this issue. In regards to renaming the file, if you right-click on the file and open
Security tab you can select your user and choose Edit to assign the proper rights.

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Claudia

Hello @SAFC-JONES,

can you explain in more detail what

… it wont allow me …

means? Don’t you have the edit with notepad context menu entry anymore? Any error when trying to open the file? etc…

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @_F-3000_,

I know wine and npp works but don’t have any experience using webdavs. I assume that it will work,
when the web links are mounted into the filesystem as npp hasn’t any webdav driver/component builtin.

Cheers
Claudia