Note++ file location

JE Ramirez

Moving to a new laptop and would like to take all my Note++ files. Can someone provide the path address where these files would be located on my old laptop?

Thanks,

PeterJones

@JE-Ramirez ,

Note++ file location

The application is called Notepad++.

would like to take all my Note++ files. Can someone provide the path address where these files would be located on my old laptop?

That depends on which files you mean.

If you mean the text files you edit in Notepad++, of course we cannot. Only you can know where you save all your files.
- If you have never saved any files, and all your tabs are just called new 1 through new 999, and are just relying on session snapshot’s periodic backup, then those temporary files are likely in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup. If that is the case, you will want to read our backup FAQ before you set up Notepad++ on the new laptop. But i recommend saving all those files to a known location first, and then copy the reasonably-named files from the old machine to the new.
If you mean the configuration files for Notepad++: assuming a normal installation, they are in %AppData%\Notepad++\ and the subdirectories

JE Ramirez

@PeterJones, thanks. Of course, it’s Notepad++, a little too fast with the typing and posting of the question.

Thanks for the paths.

tnet chrome

The file config.xml under %AppData% had the recent files list. But if I manually delete any recents, save the file and restart Notepad++ the same list of files is re-added. Why? Where from? I want to be able to control that. Clearly NP++ has them elsewhere. This isn’t like hacking the program, it’s a user wanting to prune that list so we can remove junk.

How to do so? Where does it come from? Knowing that then can remove from that other location.

PeterJones

@tnet-chrome said in Note++ file location:

The file config.xml under %AppData% had the recent files list. But if I manually delete any recents, save the file and restart Notepad++ the same list of files is re-added. Why? Where from?

Because those recents were still in memory when you exited Notepad++, and when Notepad++ exits, it overwrites the existing config.xml with those values from memory – even if you had recently manually edited config.xml. The user-manual section on Editing Config Files has a paragraph explaining how to edit config.xml, because it must be treated differently than the other config files (and config files in general have to be treated differently relative to “normal” files, as that entire section describes).