Find in Files not working

Mark Kentwell

Thanks George, the re-installation option worked for me too! Now if they could fix the memory-leak (or similar) when you scroll too fast this would be brilliant!

Guillermo Lubary

Yes, uninstall and reinstall worked for me too. It’s pretty fast.

hugh jackman

no need to uninstall and then reinstall
Find in files tab , check/select In all sub-folders

pinchies

While @hugh-jackman 's suggestion is also good advice for common PEBCAK sufferers, in this case I had the same problem and that did not work for me.

Fortunately, thanks to some sneaky comparison with WinMerge.exe I found the cause:

In ~/Appdata/Roaming/Notepad++/config.xml

Change the bottomHeight value from 0 to 200 and you’ll get the file search results back :-)

P.S would like to see a future collab between Notepad++ & WinMerge…

FYI There’s also a typo in the config file
useCustumDir=“no”

Notepad++ v7.6.3 (64-bit)
Build time : Jan 27 2019 - 17:16:47
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)
Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll

PeterJones

@pinchies,

There is a plugin for Notepad++ called the Compare plugin (v2.0.0 is available thru the Plugins > Plugins Admin interface in your Notepad++ v7.6.3). Not having used WinMerge, I don’t know the ins-and-outs of WinMerge’s feature set; however, the Compare plugin will highlight differences, allow you to jump between them, and you can easily copy data from one to the other, so it has a lot of similar features to other comparison tools, like gvimdiff, TortoiseSVN’s Diff, and presumably WinMerge. If you want file-comparison features inside the Notepad++ environment, that’s what I’d recommend.

Bob Boisvert

I get the same behaviour, last two weeks

PeterJones

@Bob-Boisvert said:

I get the same behaviour, last two weeks

I assume you mean the same behavior as that described 3 years ago: am I right? If so, what version are you using? Are you using the ancient version mentioned then? Or a more recent? You can use the ? menu, Debug Info > Copy debug info into clipboard and paste it in your reply.

Are your actual symptoms identical to those described 3 years ago, or just vaguely similar? Please describe exactly what goes wrong with you, in a way that we can try to replicate.

Did you try the steps mentioned above (ie, uninstall and reinstall)? Did it work for you? If not, what else have you tried?

TL;DR:

If you want help, you need to give more information. The things I asked above will help us help you, otherwise the best answer we can give is “you’re likely doing something wrong, because it works for us.”

Alan Kilborn

@Bob-Boisvert said:

same behaviour, last two weeks

If you haven’t switched N++ versions in this time period, or maybe even if you have, I have wagering money that you have one of the find option checkboxes checked that you never had before you began having trouble.

But an EIGHT word description of your problem isn’t going to get you much.

Nick Kat

same thing has just happened.
I’ve never updated the notepad++ since the original installation.
In just few hours FileSearch just stopped working. Reopening doesn’t help, didn’t try laptop restarting yet
Here’s debug info
Notepad++ v7.7.1 (32-bit)
Build time : Jun 16 2019 - 21:14:50
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NPPJSONViewer.dll

Alan Kilborn

@Nick-Kat said in Find in Files not working:

In just few hours FileSearch just stopped working.

You’re going to have to say more about what you mean by “stopped working”

Greg gilchrist

Had the same issue. Started about 2 weeks ago.

Cause: Config file “DockingManager” BottomHeight is set to “0”. and should be “200”

I tried updating it and restarting but the change would get reverted automatically.

I Was able to get it working doing the following:

Go to ~/Appdata/Roaming/Notepad++
2, Rename the Config file to Config.old
Restart Notepadd++
The Config file will be recreated an Search will start working.

Hope this helps.

Jose Rosas

I fixed the issue just picking the edge of the lower pane and dragging it up. This is the same changing the bottomHeight value from 0 to anything.