Project panel does not pop up

Pierre Huybens

Good afternoon ,

in my Office environment they upgrade to notepadd++ 7.6.6 32 bits. Since the upgrade, when I try to open a project panel nothing happen, the project docking window does not appear anymore. I have all my useful files in project 1. I try to open project 2 or 3 but same no windows appear.
How to add information log/debug to understand why this happen ?
this feature is so useful, I use it also at home with the same version and this one is working perfectly.

Thanks a lot.

Ekopalypse

@Pierre-Huybens

would you mind posting the debug-info?
It is available under ? menu and would reveal how npp is setup and where to look for
configuration files etc.

Pierre Huybens

here is the information. thanks for helping.
Notepad++ v7.6.6 (32-bit). I just copy back the XML tools that working fine.

Build time : Apr 3 2019 - 23:49:50

Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe

Admin mode : OFF

Local Conf mode : OFF

OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)

Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll XMLTools.dll

Ekopalypse

@Pierre-Huybens

because of Local Conf mode : OFF your configuration files are located under
%APPDATA%\notepad++ (in reality something like C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++).

There should be a file called config.xml in it.
This xml should have an xml tag like

    <ProjectPanels>
        <ProjectPanel id="0" workSpaceFile="C:\Users\eren\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\npp_projects" />
        <ProjectPanel id="1" workSpaceFile="" />
        <ProjectPanel id="2" workSpaceFile="" />
    </ProjectPanels>

Can you check if this is the case?
Can you copy the content of that tag.
Note, to inculde it like I did use 3 ~ in front and after the text, like
`~~~
xml data

Pierre Huybens

here is the contain of the file

   <ProjectPanels>
     <ProjectPanel id="0" workSpaceFile="C:\cs-coe\workspace2.xml" />
     <ProjectPanel id="1" workSpaceFile="" />
      <ProjectPanel id="2" workSpaceFile="" />
</ProjectPanels>
~~~ xml data ~~~

and the full file contains point to my project contains , I have  used this one for a while and also sorte to have file  in alphabetic order 
C:\Users\phuybens>dir C:\cs-coe\workspace2.xml

Volume in drive C is System
Volume Serial Number is BEC0-4DC3

Directory of C:\cs-coe
05/15/2019  03:32 PM             6,005 workspace2.xml
               1 File(s)          6,005 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  198,528,884,736 bytes free

and there is no error in the xml file , I can provide the contains , but when open in notepadd++ there is no xml error  ;-)

thanks for your help

Pierre Huybens

@Ekopalypse : what I do not understand that if i try to open another project (the other empty one) there is also not pop up windows. No wait to start Notepad++ with debug information ?

Ekopalypse

@Pierre-Huybens

no, npp doesn’t have something like a log file to see what is going on.
Because you mentioned that none of the panels appears I thought the tag got corrupted
but doesn’t look like this is the case.
What you can try is to stop npp and rename config.xml.
When starting npp it will create a default one. Does this work?

Pierre Huybens

@Ekopalypse : Yes, this was the solution, Now the Workspace windows is pop up again.
Many many thanks Ekopalypse.