All recent files disappeared

[Gary Williams]

Normally, when NP is opened, all the recent files display their tabs at the top of the np panel. Yesterday when I ran up np, all the tags had disappeared and the recent file list displayed very old files.

I re-opened the files I needed.

Today, they are all gone again. Why is NP forgetting the files that are open?

[Meta Chuh]

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Gary-Williams

please check your settings at settings > preferences > backup > session snapshot and periodic backup, as seen at the screenshot below.

make sure that remember current session for next launch and enable session snapshot and periodic backup are enabled, and the backup is set to 7 seconds.

if it is set that way, but it does not work, please provide us with your debug information, by going to the notepad++ menu ? > debug info... > copy debug info into clipboard.

important note: notepad++ downloaded from the microsoft store or from portableapps . com are known to have similar issues.
please make sure you only download official versions from notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads .

best regards.

[Gary Williams]

Thanks Meta. That fixed it.

Regards

Gary