New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?
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@Troglo37 said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
@PeterJones I’m not sure I understand. Are you saying that all I need to do is change the name of the toolbarIcons.xml file to toolbarButtonsConf.xml?
Well, technically, I said you needed to copy the one line from the old file to the new one. But the XML structure is the same, and if you don’t already have
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
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@PeterJones said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
I don’t have a toolbarButtonsConf.xml file. I changed the file name, but nothing changed.
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@Troglo37 said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
I don’t have a toolbarButtonsConf.xml file. I changed the file name, but nothing changed.
Did you exit and restart Notepad++. Files such as
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
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@mkupper Yes, I closed and restarted.
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nothing changed.
Share your ?-menu’s Debug Info. And let us know what directory you put the
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
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@PeterJones
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It works for me.
Just rename toolbarIcons.xml to toolbarButtonsConf.xml and restart notepad++. That’s all. -
With that setup,
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
should go in%AppData%\Notepad++\toolbarButtonsConf.xml
I tried in a portable 8.8, and Notepad++ didn’t care whether I had the full
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
or whether I just had one that had the same smaller contents of the originaltoolbarIcons.xml
, and both worked, so there’s nothing fancy or different about the XML.I also tried in my installed 8.8.1 and thus in my AppData hierarchy, and it worked the same… whether I had the long version or the short version of
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
, it worked correctly.I cannot see how it can be going wrong for you.
Please use Notepad++'s Run > Run… action to run
cmd /k "dir %AppData%\Notepad++\ & dir /S %AppData%\Notepad++\toolbarIcons"
, and paste that in your next reply (use the</>
toolbar button in the forum to format the text). Also include the contents of%AppData%\Notepad++\toolbarButtonsConf.xml
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@Troglo37 One other item besides the list from @PeterJones is to check
Preferences / Settings / Toolbar (tab)
.- Toggle
Hide
on and off. Does this make the toolbar disappear and reappear ? - When
Hide
is unchecked then try the selections for the various types of toolbars. Does the toolbar repaint each time?
- Toggle
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@PeterJones Am I doing it correctly? I first clicked on the symbol in the toolbar, then added the text in the highlighted area. A message appeared saying it’s too long.
I tried only half of the text, but still got the message. There’s a lot of text!
@mkupper said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
@Troglo37 One other item besides the list from @PeterJones is to check
Preferences / Settings / Toolbar (tab)
.- Toggle
Hide
on and off. Does this make the toolbar disappear and reappear ? - When
Hide
is unchecked then try the selections for the various types of toolbars. Does the toolbar repaint each time?
Nothing happens with the toolbar icons. Only the row with File, Edit, etc hides,
- Toggle
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@Troglo37 said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
Nothing happens with the toolbar icons. Only the row with File, Edit, etc hides,
That confuses me and so I want to make sure you were toggling the hide/unhide configuration setting for the
Toolbar
and not the menu bar found in theGeneral
section of the Preferences. The menu bar has File, Edit, etc. which make me think you were in the General section.Here’s a screen shot of the preferences section I had written about earlier. The
Hide
setting should switch the toolbar on/off and the selections belowHide
should change the toolbar icon styles. I’m wondering if this is behaving expected.
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@Troglo37 said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
Am I doing it correctly? I first clicked on the symbol in the toolbar, then added the text in the highlighted area. A message appeared saying it’s too long.
I tried only half of the text, but still got the message. There’s a lot of text!
I guess I wasn’t expecting those directories to be that full.
Unless you have a large number of Icon directories, this command should be shorter:cmd /k "dir /w %AppData%\Notepad++\ & dir /w/S %AppData%\Notepad++\toolbarIcons"
You can use a separate post to post the contents of your
%AppData%\Notepad++\toolbarButtonsConf.xml
, if it’s too much to have both the directory listings and the file contents in the same post. -
@mkupper Thanks for the illustration. I was in the General section, not the Toolbar section, when I ticked Hide. It hides the toolbar when I tick it in the Toolbar section.
@PeterJones said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
@Troglo37 said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
Am I doing it correctly? I first clicked on the symbol in the toolbar, then added the text in the highlighted area. A message appeared saying it’s too long.
I tried only half of the text, but still got the message. There’s a lot of text!
I guess I wasn’t expecting those directories to be that full.
Unless you have a large number of Icon directories, this command should be shorter:cmd /k "dir /w %AppData%\Notepad++\ & dir /w/S %AppData%\Notepad++\toolbarIcons"
You can use a separate post to post the contents of your
%AppData%\Notepad++\toolbarButtonsConf.xml
, if it’s too much to have both the directory listings and the file contents in the same post.I didn’t add app data.
It says: Total Files Listed
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@Troglo37 That’s strange! It worked this time. Maybe I doubled or tripled it the first time by trying to copy the text and accidentally entered a command.
I’ll post the contents of the app data.
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@Troglo37 said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
06/03/2022 04:48 AM 2,623 toolbarButtonsConf.xml.xml
The name of the file needs to be
toolbarButtonsConf.xml
, nottoolbarButtonsConf.xml.xml
. Fix the name, and it will work.
Personal PC advice (not Notepad++ related): In the future, I suggest you click the “…” button in Windows Explorer, choose Options, go to View, and go down and un-check “Hide extensions for known file types”.
That hideous option from Windows OS tries to help you “clean up” things by hiding extensions, but all it does is confuse people into doing things like renaming
toolbarIcons.xml
totoolbarButtonsConf.xml.xml
, because they hide one of the.xml
from you. It is a horrendous idea, and it is the first thing I turn off on any Windows PC that I have control over. -
How do I get the contents from the app data folder? What you posted isn’t a command line it understands.
When I open the folder, there are several folders and files in it such as, backup, themes, etc.
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@Troglo37 said in New Update Removed My Toolbar Icons. How Do I Get them Back?:
How do I get the contents from the app data folder? What you posted isn’t a command line it understands.
When I open the folder, there are several folders and files in it such as, backup, themes, etc.
Nevermind about that now. I have already told you what to fix.
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@PeterJones Great catch! Thanks Peter!! It works! I didn’t notice the double .XML.
Just noticed your comment about the extensions. I keep it like that because I frequently use the search software Everything and several file conversion programs. I need to know what I’m dealing with while using them simultaneously.
The other reason I keep it hidden is so I don’t accidentally screw up the extension and can’t find the file. It’s happened to me several times. The only way that can happen is when I use Everything, However, it nicely only highlights the file name and not the extension, making it harder to unintentionally change the extension.