press keys Win+R then write\paste
CMD

Type in cmd:
tree c:\ | more

If your windows.old is not a file but a catalog\folder (I don’t remember), do
to write file names of c:\windows.old* and its subfolders containing “MICROSOFT”:
dir c:\windows.old /s /b | find /i “MICROSOFT” >> %USERPROFILE%\DESKTOP\LOSTFILES.txt

also to output in console all file names in that catalog recursively
(recursively - i.e. all folder tree)
for /R c:\windows.old %R in (*) do @ECHO %R

here is what do,

right click on the txt file Open with choose another app (as npp doesn’t appear in the list) look for another app on this PC (always use this app) is checked, browse to NPP folder and open “notepadd++ application” file that starts the application nothing happens… just comes back to the explorer

@Claudia-Frank
Thanks for the info.
I updated Notepad++ to v7.5.1 and now I have lots of options! :)

Sorry it took so long to reply…
Have to wait 20 minutes between posts because I’m new with no reputation. :)

Hello, @xerkon,

As you said :

I’d like to be able to copy 2 columns from a spreadsheet

I suppose that your selected bloc of cells ( 6 rows x 2 columns ), pasted in a new tab, within N++, is displayed, as below, where any number of the second column is simply separated, from its associated number of the first column, by a tabulation character ( \t ) !

1.25 0.25 2.5 0.5 3.25 1.25 4.5 1.5 5.25 2.25 6.5 2.75

If so, the simple regex S/R should do the job :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+?)\t(.+)

REPLACE <controlpoint t="\1" val="\2"/> , with a space character, before the string val

OPTIONS Wrap around and Regular expression set

And you’ll get the text :

<controlpoint t="1.25" val="0.25"/> <controlpoint t="2.5" val="0.5"/> <controlpoint t="3.25" val="1.25"/> <controlpoint t="4.5" val="1.5"/> <controlpoint t="5.25" val="2.25"/> <controlpoint t="6.5" val="2.75"/>

If you prefer separate the two values by a tabulation character, just change the Replace box, as belwo :

REPLACE <controlpoint t="\1"\tval="\2"/>

This time, you would obtain :

<controlpoint t="1.25" val="0.25"/> <controlpoint t="2.5" val="0.5"/> <controlpoint t="3.25" val="1.25"/> <controlpoint t="4.5" val="1.5"/> <controlpoint t="5.25" val="2.25"/> <controlpoint t="6.5" val="2.75"/>

Best Regards,

guy038

Interestingly, after a re-install, it’s working! Hooray!

I am rurally located, at the end of a long and old copper line, and I have a seriously flaky connection, so corrupted downloads happen a lot. Many MP3 downloads are totally messed up.

Now that this is working, I can look at N++ as a serious contender to replace UE, which was becoming very slow at startup.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

I don’t think you can complain about that not being user-friendly. Well, you can, but no one will listen

All I’m asking is that the documentation explains how it works. Then it becomes ‘user friendly’.

@Scott-Sumner
yes, the file is totally empty with a length of zero size. how it happens and why i don know. Even the file have size of 0 byte.

@Andrew-Ampers-Taylor

maybe this is of help

open the desired file in notepad++
in the menu bar, click on view > show symbol > show all characters
(this will show you all line endings like [CR][LF])

then, if you select edit > eol (end of line) conversion > windows (CR LF) from the menu bar, it will convert all paragraphs (line endings) to the windows format (or mac or linux if you choose so)

So, I should have googled before posting. I’m sorry - :( So if you are wondering you can go to — C:\Users\USER PROFILE HERE\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup —this works provided you didnt change the default setting (not too sure how didnt look for it)

If you did change it you can try to see the path --in notpad ++
*click on settings
*preferences
*backup
*should see the backup path
**this is where you can make adjustments to backups (how and where)

Hope this helps others