Unable to see Data in the Notepad++
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I am able to open the notepad++ and i am able to see that i can type or open new files but i am unable to see the data.
I tried all the settings and options in the notepad++ but still can not figure it out.
Is any one else having similar issue? any help would be appreciated.
Version 8.7.
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@Satya-Sriharsha-Buddha said in Unable to see Data in the Notepad++:
i am able to see that i can type or open new files but i am unable to see the data.
What do you mean by
see the data
? Could you provide an example of some steps you followed, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened? -
@Satya-Sriharsha-Buddha I’m wondering if you want to see the underlying structure of a file. There is a plugin available for Notepad++ called Hex-Editor that may be what you are seeking.
To activate the hex editor
- Select
Plugins / Plugins Admin
from the menus. - Type
hex
in Plugins Admin’s search field. - Click empty checkbox to the left of the line for Hex-Editor to enable the checkbox and then click the
Install
button in the upper-right corner of Plugins Admin. - The new plugin will be downloaded and installed. This causes Notepad++ to exit and restart itself.
- Hex-Editor is now available under the Plugins menu.
You can now toggle hex editor mode on/off for a file by using
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H
on the keyboard. - Select
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Assuming “hex editor” may be a stretch, here.
I think OP should answer Mark’s questions. -
Thanks all for your reply.
i have a .csv file which i am able to open using excel and notepad, but when i open in notepad++, i see that the cursor is moving and data is there in the background but i am unable to see.
If i use find and search for something, it is returning the exact position but i can not see.![alt text]( image url)
There is data here in the file but unable to see.
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If you opened an existing file, Notepad++ wouldn’t be calling it
new 1
– the tab would have the filename. I do not think you opened the file you think you did. What steps exactly did you take to open the file?That said, it does show that
new 1
has changes in it, so you’ve obviously got something in the file. Either it’s all spaces (or nbsp or similar), or you have something wrong with your stylers.xml. If you’ve never (intentionally) customized your Settings > Style Configurator settings, then an easy thing to try is to exit all copies of Notepad++, go into%AppData%\Notepad++\
and rename thestylers.xml
file tostylers.xml.maybe-bad
, then run Notepad++ – if you can now see the data correctly, then yourstylers.xml
was somehow corrupted. If that doesn’t fix it, then you probably haven’t opened the file you thought you have. -
@Satya-Sriharsha-Buddha
One thought to try is from Notepad++ to do theView / Show Symbol / Show All Characters
menu option. If you then doView / Show Symbol
then you should see a✓
checkmark to the left of theView / Show Symbol
menu option. This means that Notepad++ will be displaying many of the normally invisible characters.- Normal spaces will display with an orange dot.
- Tabs will have an orange line ending in an orange orange arrow.
- End of line characters will display with the letters CR and/or LF in white text on a black background.
- Many normally invisible Unicode characters will show a code using white text on a black background.
Here’s an example of Show All Characters where you can see the tab aligned table, spaces used for aligning, etc.