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    • User NameU
      User Name
      last edited by

      Latest notepad++, sometime i see unknown symbols while edit big text file! (~5MB)

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      • User NameU
        User Name
        last edited by

        It can fixed in new version???

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones
          last edited by PeterJones

          Easy: you need to unselect View > Show Symbol > Show End of Line.

          FYI: CR = Carriage Return (ASCII:13), LF = Line Feed (ASCII:10). Windows text files use CR+LF as the end-of-line (EOL) sequence. Unix/Linux uses just LF for EOL. Ancient Macs used just CR.

          EDIT: Though I’m not sure why it started midway through. Also, it looks like you have mixed line endings (see the first red circle, with just LF). Might want to use Edit > EOL Conversion a couple times, to go to Unix and back to Windows, and see if that clears it up.

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          • dailD
            dail
            last edited by dail

            Having the carriage returns show up mid-file normally indicates the underlying buffer got corrupted. This mostly happens when the periodic backups is turned on for large files. This has been a known issue for years (which is why I never use it).

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            • User NameU
              User Name
              last edited by

              How to fix it ?

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              • pnedevP
                pnedev
                last edited by

                Looking at @dail 's comment you need to switch off the periodic backups (Settings->Preferences->Backup).

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                • Reed ScarceR
                  Reed Scarce
                  last edited by Reed Scarce

                  Thanks for the heads-up @dail
                  This happened to me too, just now. Perhaps related to having too many files tabbed open. Another artifact was after the first CRLF the first character of each line disappeared. I copy/pasted the file and all the text was there, minus the CRLFs.

                  Take precautions, act like the file may be corrupt or on the verge of corruption before you do anything else. However, with that in mind, after I closed a couple of files the subject document became the active document and I did a simple ctrl-S and the initial chars reappeared, and the CRLF flags disappeared. YMMV

                  The periodic backups are one of the reasons I like Notepad++ so much. Forewarned is forearmed, much obliged.

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