BUG Report on Project Panels, I lost Project Panels again !!
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At this point, this is a BUG report.
Today I just lost another large Project Panel with many projects and folders in it, when I tore out “undocked” an editor window and then closed the main parent window. When I closed NPP completely and reopened it, ALL my Project Panels are empty.
I have lost my Project Panels several time before, because I don’t know where Project Panels are stored or under what name. Are they in a config file? How can I reload them from disk?
There is nothing on the File… menu to reopen Project Panels.
I need to “Save As…” and “Rename” menus on Project Panels to specify exactly where these files are located.
Is there a way to display the named project panels, or put named Project Panels on a “Projects” menu? How do I configure a “Projects” manager menu to do this?
This will greatly increase the usability and utility of the Projects concept in NPP.
Thank you.
Rich Lysakowski
Where are Project Panels stored? How do I reopen them from disk? I cannot find any instructions.
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@Rich-Lysakowski said in BUG Report on Project Panels, I lost Project Panels again !!:
At this point, this is a BUG report.
Well, first, bug reports here will not be seen/recognized by anyone that might fix them. See HERE for info on how to properly submit a bug report.
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@Rich-Lysakowski said in BUG Report on Project Panels, I lost Project Panels again !!:
I cannot find any instructions.
How hard did you look? Have you consulted the user manual?
A quick way to get to the user manual from Notepad++ itself is to use this menu option:
Projects, including saving them, are discussed in the manual HERE.
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The manual has all this. But based on your phrasing:
- If are asking where a “Project” is saved, I hate to break it to you, but I am reasonably certain you never told Notepad++ to save it.
- If you did save it, you would know that you save a “Workspace”, not the project (as the User Manual, which @Alan-Kilborn linked you to, explained)
- When you do save a Workspace, by right clicking on the workspace and choosing Save or Save As, it will ask you where you want to save it. If you have never seen it pop up the Save dialog, I conclude that you’ve never actually tried to save the Workspace
- An unsaved Workspace will have a red icon, and will probably just be called “Workspace”
- When you close a Project Panel with an unsaved Workspace, or when you try to exit Notepad++ with an unsaved Workspace, it will pop up a dialog requesting that you confirm you want to close it without saving. This is whether you have the preferences set to enable session snapshot or not – so Notepad++ is actually doing its best to protect you.
- When you do save a Workspace, it changes the name of the Workspace to the name of the file, and the icon will be green instead. And if you hover over the Workspace’s name, it will be the full path to the file.
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@PeterJones Thank you for your patient explanation. I must admit that I must not have saved the Panels or Workspaces. I have some Workspaces saved with XML file extensions, but I did not really understand that Notepad does not track workspaces. I got confused because Project_Panel_1, Project_Panel_2, Project_Panel_3 never change names. I also recently found a lot of files in my Notepad++ “backup” folder that has the “lost” files, and I was able to load/restore them back into project panels.
From asking my question and reading your answer and the docs, I have a much better understanding of how things work.
Thank you.
Rich Lysakowski
