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    • T Offline
      tordenflesk
      last edited by

      My layout got corrupted/reset by this upgrade. Plugins etc. are installed but layout, themes fonts etc. are back to defaults:

      quick way to restore?

      upgraded / Installed via scoop.

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        PeterJones @tordenflesk
        last edited by

        @tordenflesk said:

        My layout got corrupted/reset by this upgrade. Plugins etc. are installed but layout, themes fonts etc. are back to defaults:

        quick way to restore?

        Hopefully, it’s just that it used to point to local config but is now AppData, or similar. Can you share ?-menu’s Debug Info?

        upgraded / Installed via scoop.

        My guess is that the 8.9.8.1 fix for the 8.9.8 scoop problem somehow had that side effect. But that’s just my guess as someone on the periphery. With your Debug Info, one of the experts might have more insight.

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          rdipardo @PeterJones
          last edited by rdipardo

          @PeterJones said:

          Hopefully, it’s just that it used to point to local config but is now AppData, or similar.

          As a scoop user myself, I can confirm that it will configure Notepad++ for portable usage by default.¹ Removing the magic doLocalConf.xml file at %USERPROFILE%\scoop\apps\notepadplusplus\current is probably all that’s needed.

          ¹ This is one setting that’s not preserved during an upgrade (the other being the autoCompletion folder), while the contents of ${NPP_INSTALLATION_ROOT}\{backup,cloud,plugins,themes,userDefineLangs} are kept in sync by means of junctions between the canonical current folder and the versioned one. Someone should open an issue in the scoop repository, I just haven’t found the free time yet.

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            donho @rdipardo
            last edited by donho

            @rdipardo said:

            As a scoop user myself, I can confirm that it will configure Notepad++ for portable usage by default.¹

            Thank you for the confirmation.
            Are you saying that scoop changed their way to install Notepad++ due to the Regression of failure to open files via Notepad++ symlink paths in v8.9.8?

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              rdipardo @donho
              last edited by rdipardo

              @donho said:

              Are you saying that scoop changed their way to install Notepad++ due to the Regression of failure to open files via Notepad++ symlink paths in v8.9.8?

              No. Scoop has always used junctions to persist the user’s config files — before and after v8.9.8 — by linking the (portable) installation directory to a stable %UserProfile%\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus folder, e.g.,¹

              > dir %UserProfile%\scoop\apps\notepadplusplus\8.9.8.1

10/01/2026  08:01 PM    <DIR>          .
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/24/2026  09:58 AM    <DIR>          autoCompletion
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     backup [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\backup]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     cloud [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\cloud]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     plugins [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\plugins]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     themes [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\themes]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     userDefineLangs [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\userDefineLangs]

              The problem I was mentioning is with the installation script (available here). Because it always downloads a portable release, the bundled doLocalConf.xml file is extracted — and kept — every time, whether or not the user wants to run in portable mode.

              ¹ Notice that autoCompletion is not soft-linked, probably by oversight.

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                donho @donho
                last edited by

                FYI: the auto-update is triggered for this release.

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                  drunkaan-cloud
                  last edited by

                  Search in Files not working (no result found where obviously there are) in this release. Reinstallation => NO SUCCESS. I had to revert to 8.9.8 to use it again.

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                    PeterJones @drunkaan-cloud
                    last edited by PeterJones

                    @drunkaan-cloud said:

                    Search in Files not working (no result found where obviously there are) in this release. Reinstallation => NO SUCCESS. I had to revert to 8.9.8 to use it again.

                    v8.9.8.1 Find in Files works fine for me.

                    Please:

                    • Try with all plugins disabled, to make sure it’s not a plugin issue
                    • share ?-menu’s Debug Info
                    • share your FIND WHAT (use ` before and after your search, like `my.*search` , so that the Forum doesn’t “eat” your search characters as post-formatting)
                    • share all the options in the Find in Files dialog (Filters, Directory, Search Mode, other checkboxes – a screenshot would be easiest)
                    • does your directory contain *.lnk to files or other directories? or windows junctions or symlinks or hardlinks?
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                      minneyb-unix
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                      The installation keeps failing in my user\appdata\roaming\Notepad++\ folder. It keeps saying that access is denied. Its access is granted.

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                        xomx @minneyb-unix
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                        @minneyb-unix

                        Maybe an antivirus or similar problem.

                        Yesterday, I had some false-positives even while trying to download N++ GitHub artifacts. I checked these "notepad++.exe"s via VirusTotal and these were flagged (only by the MS own Defender engine). Now it’s ok, so I’d try again.

                        npp-gh-artifact-virus-false-positive.png

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