Updating Notepad++ Using Zip File
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No, because unzipping a new version doesn’t delete files,
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I guess I didn’t think too much about your entire workflow. :)
But, taken as a whole, with the OP’s:
Copy specific files from the new downloaded Zip file to my current Onedrive folder?
…it does make sense.
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Hello, @Loren-Schoepke
Follow these steps to update notepad++ using zip file :
Step 1:- Open Run Dialog by clicking Start->run (Notepade++ should be closed).
Step 2:- Copy this text%APPDATA%\Notepad++into the text field of Run Dialog.
Step 3:- Click ok. A folder named Notepad++ will appear.
Step 4:- Delete these two files : config.xml and stylers.xml.
Step 5:- After deleting files unzip the zip file.
Step 6:- After Unzip Launch Notepad++.I hope above information will be useful for you.
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@Prahlad-Makwana4145
This will delete all existing your existing program settings. -
@Ekopalypse
If you add a copy of the directory with plugins to your script … it will be perfect! -
@andrecool-68
Hmmm, you and @Alan-Kilborn must have something in mind
which I’m either not using or unaware of.Why do you think that there is a need to include plugins directory?
I’m using this procedure since a while now and I never came across
an issue that the plugins directory got corrupted.My understanding of unzipping something is, that only those files in
the current unzip_directory get modified which are part of the zip and
others do get untouched.
If files in a zip aren’t in the current unzip_directory they get created.What do I miss?
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What do I miss?
Probably nothing, just different ways and desired ways of updating (in a manual way). Plugins, however, are easy; just copy an entire folder tree from one version to another.
Here’s my somewhat more in-depth way (compared to your method above) of upgrading the rest:
Version A = version I have
Version B = version I’m going to- do a file tree compare on an freshly unzipped portable of A and B, noting any differences in files and file contents
- copy A’s configuration files into B’s tree
- hand-edit in any new feature’s configuration stuff into the configuration files now in B
- start using version B
Maybe the adding of new feature config stuff isn’t strictly necessary, but I always do it, just in case. [An example of might be English.xml or English_customizable.xml. If you don’t find out what the new stuff is in version B, and add it in to what you had going from version A, you can’t customize it later.]
Usually this is not a intense undertaking, but it can be if you let several versions go by without updating.
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Thanks. This worked great!!!
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Didn’t have a “Notepad++” folder". Not sure, but I think this gets created if you do an install. I just used ZIP file.
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@Loren-Schoepke said in Updating Notepad++ Using Zip File:
Didn’t have a “Notepad++” folder". Not sure, but I think this gets created if you do an install. I just used ZIP file.
You are correct. By default, an installer-version will use
%AppData%\Notepad++for storing configuration files and a zip (“portable”) version will just use the zip directory (because that’s part of what makes it “portable”).If you would like to maintain a separate
%AppData%\Notepad++but use the zip version, you can delete thedoLocalConf.xmlfrom the Notepad+±unzip directory; after that, the next time you run Notepad++, the%AppData%\Notepad++folder will be created and populated; however, it might* not use the same settings that were in your zipfolder before. (*: caveat = I’ve only tried the deletion ofdoLocalConf.xmlto auto-populate%AppData%\Notepad++once, and wasn’t specifically looking for this feature, so I didn’t store it in long-term memory; I know it created the folder properly; my memory says that it used default config files, not copies of what’s in your zipfolder, but I could be wrong.)
