Hi, sorry I took so long to reply. I forgot I posted this. :P

My NP++ version is 6.8.8 and I’m on Windows 7. I ran it with -noPlugin and that fixed it. Thanks for the idea. Now to track down the miscreant plugin wrecking my stuff…

@Seyi-M,

yes, this can be a problem as they have notepad++ included as app which can be cleaned and guess what,
it cleans the session information but this means that only the LIST which file should be loaded has been
deleted, not the files themself. They should be still somewhere on your disc.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello Trum-Bolt,

One way to do it would be … described here.

Cheers
Claudia

Thank you so much! This helped a great deal.

@Raul-Chiarella Only thing I can think of is if you have a keyboard shortcut installed for Notepad++? Search in Windows for notepad++.exe and for every instance of that file found, right-click on it and open the properties. In the Properties dialog, in the Shortcut tab (which should show by default), check that the Shortcut key: field says None. If not, select the Shortcut key field and delete the contents. It’s a long shot, but this could cause the behavior you’re describing.

Hello Michael,

I’m not a lawyer and don’t know if this legal but what about using an additional
keyword field which has the a license statement pointing to the gnu website?
E.g http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0
To avoid mismatches, all should be encased of course.

Cheers
Claudia

Well there seem to be a misunderstanding what backup means and how it should be treaten.
Backup is, in best case, a duplicate of a file and in worst case your original file without the changes of the last saving.
That a backup file can be lost, as well as the original file, is possible. Many external influences can causing this.

To use backup functionality, you normally would edit a file and save it when done, which would then update
the original file. In case of a crash there is a minimal possibility that both files (original and backup) are open and
get corrupted because operating system wasn’t able to close files properly.

What you do seems to be working on temporary files always, so there is no backup functionality.

Regarding the backup every 7 seconds.
Of course, there must be made a decision how often a file should be backed up but one must keep in mind
that shorten the time period means increasing the possibility that the file is open while crash happens.
And if it happens that often I would say you have to start investigating what is causing the crash because
next time it might be that the whole disc is damaged.

Regarding backup functionality lost. Did you check the settings if they are still set?

Cheers
Claudia