@IsRakc

The PK header indicates that it could be a ZIP file. Rename it to *.zip and try to open it with Explorer or 7Zip.

Ah, the highlight is very faint both in your screen print and on my monitor. How do I make it have more contrast?

Thanks for your invaluable help.

Rick

If you mean changing what number Notepad++ will report for the column (for example, in the status bar) when your cursor is at the 14th column: sorry, Notepad++ isn’t built that way: Row 1 Column 1 is the first character in your file, and subsequent characters and rows will increment the number seen.

dinkumoil, Thank you very much for the extensive explanation. I will try your script first and then as a fallback check those that do not work if any.

I have given an option to save our files in network and winodws update was done…I have reinstalled all my applications after this

Thank you.

@Steven-Haymes

I know, :-) but it seems it is somehow difficult to migrate the existing code to python3.
Unfortunately my c++ skills aren’t good enough to contribute to pythonscript plugin.

@PeterJones said:

I still notice that 10 doesn’t “remember” some of my Explorer settings as reliably as I would like.

That said, I decided just try to switch over to old-style dialogs and check that out… when I did, I could change from the tiles to the details view, and Windows did remember it for me even after exiting and re-running Notepad++. But there may be other Win10 settings that affect whether or not it remembers.

I’m back on new-style now, because that’s what I now prefer.

@David-Griffey Rename directory “updater”

@Wojcisz-PL

as I’m always using the zipped versions I don’t know for sure but I assume by creating
a file called doLocalConf.xml it shouldn’t read from appdata. File does not have any content.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your response.

I ended up on using the “clean slate” solution that involved uninstalling NP++, cleaning up the remaining folders and then reinstalled the latest version of NP++. Before that, I backed up my C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ folder to retain my old settings.

After installing the few plugins that I use, I copied the backed up plugin configurations files (CustomizeToolbar.btn, CustomizeToolbar.dat, npes_saved.txt, NppExec.ini and such) over the new ones (which were backed up first). DSpellCheck required downloading a dictionary.

I copied my backed up custom color theme into the new themes folder and just manually went through my preferences as they are simple on NP++. All in all, it was not that painful of a process and now I have a clean NP++ install on my computers.

Regards,

Steve

@Joe-Miserendino said:

it seems like anywhere from 1 to 3 character are missing.

Hmm, I haven’t seen that. Do you have some example text that shows the problem for you? either real text – or, if that’s too proprietary to share, make up some dummy text. if so, please include the example text, as well as the base64 that it becomes. Use the formatting described in the boilerplate below, so that we are sure to be using the same text that you do.

Thanks for your Notepad++ version. Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit? (? > Debug Info > Copy debug info into clipboard is the easiest way to grab that and other information that will help us replicate (or counter-example) your experience.) I assume you used Plugins > MIME Tools to do the encoding: what does Plugins > MIME Tools > About say the version is?

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This forum is formatted using Markdown, with a help link buried on the little grey ? in the COMPOSE window/pane when writing your post. For more about how to use Markdown in this forum, please see @Scott-Sumner’s post in the “how to markdown code on this forum” topic, and my updates near the end. It is very important that you use these formatting tips – using single backtick marks around small snippets, and using code-quoting for pasting multiple lines from your example data files – because otherwise, the forum will change normal quotes ("") to curly “smart” quotes (“”), will change hyphens to dashes, will sometimes hide asterisks (or if your text is c:\folder\*.txt, it will show up as c:\folder*.txt, missing the backslash). If you want to clearly communicate your text data to us, you need to properly format it.

@Edward-Hayes said:

Sorry should have added … with notepad++

You have missed @andrecool-68’s succinct point: per the description linked, a .bsf file is:

High-definition video format used to store Blu-ray video data; encoded with Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and uses H.264 video compression; may be found on a Blu-ray video disc.

High definition video formats are binary files. Notepad++ is a text editor.

If you are having trouble understanding why binary ≠ text, and why it is unreasonable to expect a text editor to be able to read-as-text any binary format, please see this FAQ (which uses .docx as the example binary format, but is still relevant to the concepts involved). Actually, it goes beyond that FAQ, because at least in the FAQ’s example, .docx and .pdf are formats generally or often considered to contain textual information; expecting to be able to edit a textual representation of a binary compressed video format seems odd.

If your .bsf file is not the Blu-ray video format described above, you will have to tell us what kind of file “.bsf” is in your case, and why you think a text editor is appropriate for editing it.

@Ian-Eno-McLeod

I’m able to save file with what ever extension I like so it must be something
you do different than I do. I assume it is related to settings->preferences->default directory->use new style… but because you gave very little info about your workflow
it is hard to say.

@andrecool-68

No, duels are stupid. No need to be forced by someone. As I said, it’s a question of honour.

@intel4004u

the easiest solution would be to define your own language and define, for example, the comment to have the same fore- and background color. Of course this means, that
your hints must always start with the defined comment char.

@Ekopalypse
Yes, that’s me, alright. (FleetCommand was already taken on GitHub.) Once my Process Explorer experiment succeeded, it was quite obvious that what I needed was a bug report, not tech support. Unfortunately, I cannot delete my posts here after 180 seconds.

So, yeah, it is one the cases when one posts a message and wish he or she didn’t.

@Vasile-Caraus

I’m working, from time to time, with bookmarks as well but didn’t recognize such problem. But it seems you can replicate it constantly, so, do you mind sharing what
you are exactly doing to see if this can be replicated on other environments as well?
Is this happening only with 11 and more files or does it happen with less files as well?
And post your debug-info, which can be found in the ? menu (last menu item).