// Moving my settings from an installation of NP++ to another //
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Hi, everybody! I have been programming in C, C++ for 30 years and have been using NotePad++ for 8 to code in PHP and JavaScript, although I have never really mastered it. (Thank you, NP++ is of great help to me!)
But, I have a problem with NP++. To manage several sessions in a convenient way for me, I just make a new installation of the program for every new project I get into, and I create a shortcut to notepad++.exe in each installation for each project. Problem is with keeping my settings in a project/session when I upgrade to new versions of NP++ or when I make a new installation for a new project.
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Style Configurator isn’t completley clear to me and I don’t find a complete description of the meaning and effect of each setting, besides I have the impression it is modified in new versions of NP++.
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I don’t even think there are files I can copy from one installation to a new one and carry exactly all my settings. I usually copied session.xml and lately stylers.xml too to the new installation, but they don’t carry all the settings.
I have several specific settings that I care the most to keep, I’ll ask in a separate post on how to set them if I have to. My questions here are: Is there a complete help on the settings in Style Configurator? Is there a way to make a new installation of the same or newer version and keep all the settings?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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welcome to the notepad++ community, @Ricardo-E.-Trelles
I don’t even think there are files I can copy from one installation to a new one and carry exactly all my settings. I usually copied session.xml and lately stylers.xml too to the new installation, but they don’t carry all the settings.
the main settings are inside
%AppData%\Notepad++\config.xmlon regular installed versions of notepad++.to “clone” your complete notepad++, including all your customisations, from one machine to another:
- please install the same version on the second machine (must also be the same, 32 or 64 bit release on both machines)
- for 32 bit versions: copy the complete folder
%ProgramFiles(x86)\Notepad++from the source machine to the same folder at the target machine. - for 64 bit versions: copy the complete folder
%ProgramFiles\Notepad++from the source machine to the same folder at the target machine. - copy the complete folder
%AppData%\Notepad++from the source machine to the same folder at the target machine.
best regards.
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