How can I migrate/backup my Notepad++ in its entirety?

richiehustle

I have a list of documents opened.
I have bookmarks in some of those documents.
I saved Session.
I saved all the documents I have there.
I copied all the documents, saved Session, .xml file to my other computer.
Still it won’t open the documents list exactly the way it appears on my first computer.
Is there a hard and fast way to migrate everything to be identical on my other machine?
May be a separate app that does it?

Thank you for all your help.

mkupper

@richiehustle, it should be possible to copy the Notepad++ settings from one machine to another. On the old machine do the ? menu in the upper right corner of Notepad++ and select Debug....Save the results.

Notepad++configuration and settings are in two places.

The Notepad++ installation directory which is the third line of the debug info dump that starts with Path :. I would copy the entire directory, including it’s sub-folders. Mainly we are interested in the plugins sub-folder but you might as well grab the entire setup.
The Notepad++ configuration or settings directory. The location needs to be teased out of the ‘Local Conf mode’ plus ‘Cloud Config’ lines in the debug info dump. For most people both of those are OFF meaning the setting are in %AppData%\Notepad++. If ‘Local Conf mode’ is ON then the setting are in the same directory as the Path : you found in part 1 above. If Cloud Config is ON then I don’t know as I never used that mode.

Once you have identified your Notepad++ configuration or settings directory then copy the entire thing including sub-folders to the same place on the new machine.

At this point when you start Notepad++ on the new machine it should look the same as the old machine if, and only if, all of the file paths to the files you had been working on are the same. If a file or tab can’t be opened then Notepad++ silently removes the tab.

richiehustle

@mkupper
Thank you. The solution I found for me was basically installing identical ver. of Notepad++ on Computer 1 and Computer 2.
Then regularly uploading all my .txt files that are opened in Notepad++ to a cloud FTP.
And also uploading session.xml from %appdata%/Notepad++.
Before using Notepad++ on my Computer 2, I would just use a simple .bat file to download all those .txt files and .xml