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    • Vik YaV
      Vik Ya
      last edited by

      The network drives were working for me before, so I went back to older versions, skipping a few versions at a time, went as far back as notepad++ version 6.2.3, but that did not resolve the issue. I know for a fact that it was working earlier when I had installed Npp a few years back. But the same old version isn’t working now on win10.

      So I tried starting from a clean slate. I uninstalled the currently installed version. Purged all mention of notepad++ from the registry manually by searching for notepad++ and deleting all keys mentioning it, deleted everything from the installation directory “C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++”. Rebooted the machine, then installed the latest version 6.8.8.

      And it works now. I am now able to open the network drives.

      Hope this solution works for other folks who use Npp.
      Cheers!

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      • Vivek DaveV
        Vivek Dave
        last edited by

        After troubleshooting found that the culprit for me was the Notepad replacer 1.1.6, since it was the latest version i uninstalled it and everything was working… !!

        Hope this helps others !!!

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        • Vivek DaveV
          Vivek Dave
          last edited by

          !! Sorry couldn’t find the edit option !!
          Another thing that i found was when you have Notepad++ opened in administrator mode. (I used to for the hosts file)
          It wouldn’t open the remote files, if i reopened the notepad ++ with the users privileges it opened fine.
          Hope these and the previous post helps someone.

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          • NorbertN
            Norbert @Vivek Dave
            last edited by

            @Vivek-Dave

            Thanks a lot Dave! Same problem here (file on network drive won’t open with npp in administrator mode on Win10). Npp i s7.2.2.

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            • gstaviG
              gstavi
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              Don’t know if it is related, when I used to save files form Notepad++ to SAMBA shares it would reset file access mode to the SAMBA configuration default. It is specifically annoying with respect to ‘x’ bit for scripts.
              I found out that Notepad++ uses fopen/fclose/fwrite for files. It better use _open/_close/_write instead which eliminates the problem I had.
              I use an old version (6.7.8) that I patched for myself so I don’t know if it changed since in mainline npp.

              It would be interesting to debug it from the SAMBA side (logs ?) to see if we can see Notepad++ attempts that are denied or whether it is blocked in the Windows side.

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              • Stickleback NeS
                Stickleback Ne
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                Had the same problem & found a fix here

                Basically add a new DWORD to your registry called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System/EnableLinkedConnection & give it a value of 1. Reboot & all should be good.

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                • Chaojun TanC
                  Chaojun Tan
                  last edited by

                  @Nashvi-Labs said:

                  Notepad ++

                  Recently, I edit the file with Notepad++ on my Latitude E6530, suddenly the machine closed down, Iam not sure what problem, is there any bugs with Notepad ++ or my Latitude E6530 battery is out of power.I forget to take the adapter to charge, who can tell me how to check it?

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                  • Rob ManleyR
                    Rob Manley
                    last edited by

                    I didn’t read everything here, but I did notice if you start it in Administrator mode, you do not see the network drives. Normally does however see the network drives.

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                    • glennfromiowaG
                      glennfromiowa @Rob Manley
                      last edited by

                      @Rob-Manley If you didn’t read everything, at least go back up and read the post from @Stickleback-Ne. He has a fix for it, if you’re able to apply Registry changes. :)

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                      • vmoralitoV
                        vmoralito @Stickleback Ne
                        last edited by

                        @Stickleback-Ne said:

                        Had the same problem & found a fix here

                        Basically add a new DWORD to your registry called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System/EnableLinkedConnection & give it a value of 1. Reboot & all should be good.

                        This fixed the issue for me, but please note the typo. The new DWORD should be “EnableLinkedConnections”

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                        • Girish Kumar MG
                          Girish Kumar M
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                          I use Notepad++ v7.8.5 on Ubuntu 18.04. I run Ubuntu and Windows in dual boot mode.

                          I was not able to open text files in Windows (automatically mounted onto Ubuntu as /dev/sda3). Below is what I found to be useful.

                          Open UbuntuSoftware > Find Notepad-Plus-Plus (WINE) > Click on it > Click on Permissions > Find “Read/Write files on removable storage devices” > turn it ON.

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