Save Backup of Unnamed File - Work in Progress

[NN123616]

Hi,

Windows Update keeps eating my files… it’d be amazing if autosave worked on files that weren’t named yet.

E.g. you start a new Notepad… start writing. and autosave grabs it for say unnamed1.txt

Is this possible?

[Terry R]

@NN123616 said in Save Backup of Unnamed File - Work in Progress:

E.g. you start a new Notepad… start writing. and autosave grabs it for say unnamed1.txt
Is this possible?

I suggest you start your reading here. This is a FAQ post that gives you lots of information about backup strategy and what Notepad++ offers, both built-in and with plugins.

If after that you still have questions ask away, but you need to read that first.

Terry

[Alan Kilborn]

@NN123616

you start a new Notepad… start writing. and autosave grabs it for say unnamed1.txt

Is this possible?

I don’t know much about it, but maybe the AutoSave plugin will do that. I’ve never actually used that plugin.
I think the TakeNotes plugin can do such a thing, although it has been a while since I’ve used it.

If I were doing it for myself, I’d use the PythonScript plugin and a little script, maybe like this:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from Npp import *
import os
import time

try:
    AUF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED
except NameError:
    def AUF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED(args):
        if editor.getTextLength() == 0:
            if not os.path.isfile(notepad.getCurrentFilename()):
                notepad.saveAs(os.environ['TEMP'] + os.sep + time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S", time.localtime()) + '.txt')
    notepad.callback(AUF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])

This will, instead of doing “unnamed1.txt”, do a timestamp for a filename; example:

This demo puts the file in the folder where the TEMP environment variable points, but that’s easily customized to something else.