Changelog opens every time I start NPP

Claudia Frank

afaik, session.xml gets created when closing npp.
If it still appears than it means that you either have edited the wrong file
(it could be in two places, depending on your configuration) or it
isn’t in the the session.xml file at all. Strange.
Could you show your debug-info?
Available under menu ?

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank

@thecoop

aahhh - this is a good one ;-))))

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank

Hmmm, which makes me thinking if npp gets updated - might it restart with command line parameter
set to load changes.log file??

@thecoop
could you see if your link (shortcut) has set this parameter?

Cheers
Claudia

thecoop

Yup - pinning the instance of Notepad++ that is opened by the installer uses a shortcut target of:

"C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" C:\Program Files\Notepad++\change.log

Claudia Frank

@thecoop

thank you very much.
Now we need to find out if and how this can be prevented by npp.

Cheers
Claudia

sirberus

@thecoop Can’t thank you enough for figuring this out and posting the solution, it was driving me nuts.

Gary Huckabone

@thecoop FWIW, I closed all open files, unpinned NP++, re-opened it with no files, then re-pinned it. Thanks.

Mutlu Erkol

Please Try It

Delete Your Notepad++ shortcut
&
Run from => Start Menu > All Programs > Notepad++

I did this.

Vinoth

Mutlu Erkol, Thanks i did the same and got rid of this.

Guys,
if someone facing this issue, just delete that shortcut by closing that change.log file and again open from start, then that chage.log file will be dissapeared.
after that u can make it as a shortcut anywhere :).

Cheers,
Vinoth RN

Carey Brown

YES!!! Thank you very much! I had the same issue myself. Even after deleting the file, then I had a message about a new file constantly popping up. Very annoying! It’s fixed now though. :)

Jey Yelland

This was driving me a little crazy too, so I found and deleted change.log. Then NPP 7.3.3 informed me on each NPP start up that the change.log file was missing. NPP did this over two prompts, (1) Is it OK to build C:\Program? (2) is it OK to build File? I denied NPP a few days, and finally gave in to let it just build the darned files. Well somehow C:\Program was built as a 0KB file, owned by <computername>\Administrators, and I can’t touch it. It seems to be impacting elder apps (e.g. old Cisco VPN still in use). I have a hunch that C:\Program is getting in the way of path C:\Program Files.… Windows is prompting me on every boot if it can rename this file, but even the boot process can’t touch C:\Program. (This is a corporate laptop and I’ve Googled and attempted many possible treatments to remove. My help desk seems stumped too.)

Raoni Silva Serra - INTEGRA

@thecoop thanks a lot! I deleted ‘C:\Program Files\Notepad++\change.log’ from the shortcut and it worked.

Matt Crosby

This was bothering me to no end. Thanks for the solution!

Casual YouTuber31

Thanks for the solution! If you’ve pinned to the taskbar you can right click on the NPP icon, select properties, and remove the changelog path in the target field. You don’t have to delete the link with this ;)!

Michael Shelton

@thecoop - Thank you for saving my sanity. You’re the hero that gotham needs…

Venkatnadhan

If you close the file explicitly and then open it probably would work fine

Sloan Ozanne

@thecoop THANK YOU for the edit about pinning NPP to the taskbar. I was having the same exact issue and that was my problem too.

Stan S

Man it saves me! THANK YOU!

volksvan86

@thecoop So glad to finally have this fixed. I have been living with this nagging problem for over a year. Today I upgraded to version 7.5.6 and decided to do a search for this issue. I never made the connection that it had to do with my pinned icon. THANK YOU!!

Nuno Chaves

This will happen if you pin any application to the taskbar while a document/file is open, the shortcut will re-open the file open at the time of pinning it.