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    • Mohamed Nabil Ali
      Mohamed Nabil Ali last edited by

      Hello All,

      I just need some suggestions on how to recover unsaved text after windows update. I am a heavy NP++ user, i had like 52 tabs open all in .txt and .php, yet my Laptop froze on me, and a windows update asked me to restart the laptop and i did. Now after the restart, the notepad++ resseted itself to the default settings, no open tabs, and some txt files that were opened before the restart went corrupted showing unreadable text full of “NUL”. I would appreciate your suggestions to recover my files, as some contains private keys for crypto wallets.

      Thanks

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      • Meta Chuh
        Meta Chuh @Mohamed Nabil Ali last edited by Meta Chuh

        welcome to the notepad++ community @Mohamed-Nabil-Ali

        if you are lucky and you have periodic backup enabled, like shown in this screenshot: (settings > preferences > backup)

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        you might have a little chance that some unsaved data is still in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\

        Imgur

        but if the update you have run is windows 10 build 1809, i’ve heard about permanent data losses after this update (for any programs, not related to notepad++).

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        • Alan Kilborn
          Alan Kilborn @Mohamed Nabil Ali last edited by

          @Mohamed-Nabil-Ali

          Curious what version of Notepad++ you are running?

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          • Mohamed Nabil Ali
            Mohamed Nabil Ali last edited by

            Thank you for the replies.

            @Meta-Chuh : I have checked the backup folder, unfortunately dose not contain backups for the files i want. And yep, i am running Windows 10 Pro Version 1809. Which i guess is now bad news.
            @Alan-Kilborn : Version 7.5.9 64Bit

            This is how some files look like now:
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            • Alan Kilborn
              Alan Kilborn last edited by

              Version 7.5.9 64Bit

              This is NOT a good sign as there were fixes that were supposed to prevent the data corruption issue in that version, see below:

              Notepad++ v7.5.9 bug-fixes and enhancements:
              Fix possible file corruption during backup or power loss or other abnormal N++ termination.
              
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              • Alan Kilborn
                Alan Kilborn @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                …unless this holds true:

                @Meta-Chuh said:

                but if the update you have run is windows 10 build 1809, i’ve heard about permanent data losses after this update (for any programs, not related to notepad++).

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