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

@guy038 Of course, one could take less of a “brute force” method than I initially did…and check the source code to arrive at the same 259 character limit: RunDlg.cpp: INT_PTR CALLBACK RunDlg::run_dlgProc(UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { switch (message) { //...snip... case WM_COMMAND : { switch (wParam) { //...snip... case IDOK : { TCHAR cmd[MAX_PATH]; ::GetDlgItemText(_hSelf, IDC_COMBO_RUN_PATH, cmd, MAX_PATH); WinDef.h: #define MAX_PATH 260 The GetDlgItemText function docs discuss the one-byte null terminator for C-style strings (thus 259+1=260) and the truncation that occurs when the limit is exceeded, so all is explained. :-D

solved. please delete my post. Error You are only allowed to edit posts for 180 second(s) after posting

Thanks!! I’ll give it a go when I get a chance. :-)