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    • qwertyuiQ
      qwertyui
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      I had a bunch that for some reason I got into a habit of not saving (since it retains the texts even if it crashes I thought why not…) - and, for some reason, they disappeared today… like, only a blank ‘new 1’ was there… is there some place it stores such ‘cache’…?

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @qwertyui
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        @qwertyui said :

        it retains the texts even if it crashes I thought why not…

        I guess you discovered why that was a bad idea.

        Try looking in the Notepad++ folder under the “backup” folder.

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        • NicholasN
          Nicholas @qwertyui
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          %appdata%\notepad++\backup is the default location but you can change it it in the settings.

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @Nicholas
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            @Nicholas said in Is there a way to retrieve 'temporary' files after closing?:

            %appdata%\notepad++\backup is the default location

            This is not always the case, but is the normal case.

            but you can change it it in the settings.

            I don’t believe you can; in the settings it appears greyed/disabled; thus, it shows you the location, but doesn’t allow you to set a different one.

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