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    • Dervars14D

      Is there a way to recover a file after clicking YES in "this file had been modified by another program" error message?

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      @Dervars14 Just checked and unfortunately the undo, ^Z, does not work. This used to be a more common occurance in the old days, Prior to Windows 7 and back in the DOS days, there was no checking to see if wanted to keep a file, it just got overwritten even if a totally different file, but just had the same name. The way we used to get around this is with a recovery program. The good thing is for a long time, whenever you save a file, it actually saves it to a different area of the dirve, precisely for this kind of incedent.

      First important thing is don’t do any work on that drive, if the data is still there, it is not protected, the more you use the computer, the more likelihood those clusters of the drive will get overwritten.

      I don’t think Windows has any internal programs, other than the Recycle bin, which is no use here, as overwritten files aren’t placed there. There is a free program called Recuva, from Piriform, the same people that do CCleaner. If possible, try and download this on another computer to a USB drive, as I said, the more work you do on the drive, the chance of losing the data.

      The other good thing with using another machine, is you quickly play around with recuva, it is very basic program, the results are in table form, so easy to rearrange. You can save any detected files to the USB drive as well. If you get the file back, then just replace the current one. And this is the way to all learn to do backups more regularly, which reminds me.

    • Joël Sabourin-PoirierJ

      Smart Highlighting - Multiline Support

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      Phil pascalP

      @PeterJones Thank you. I just found this forum after searching about the multiple line issue. I’ve been using Notepad++ for years, fantastic program. First text editor I’d found that did search and replace on end of line charaters since good old Wordstar.

    • JAKJ

      How to compare 2 text files and delete duplicates

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      @JAK If you have done any programming, look at Lazarus, it is a very good IDE for Free Pascal, which comes with it. It is free. It has a very easy way to read a text file into a string list (1 line per list entry, used like an array). To do this sort of comparison is basic programming. And great learning a language when there is a real world example to go by.

    • donhoD

      Notepad++ release 8.9.3

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    • dfs-D

      Dark Mode style for UDL

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      Only downside is doing this for all custom languages (i.e. 10 in my case) effectively duplicates them and makes the Language menu quite cluttered and hard to use.

      It would be nice, if UDLs would be sorted within the preinstalled languages, but as far as I remember this wouldn’t be trivial to implement…