Notepad++ crashing on startup

Kody James Lynch

ohh okay I see what the debug thing is. This is what it shows
Notepad++ v7.7 (32-bit)
Build time : May 19 2019 - 13:08:20
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)
Plugins : dbgpPlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll GmodLua.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

Ekopalypse

@Kody-James-Lynch

give it a try by doing the following.
Start npp, goto plugins->DSpellCheck and deactivate automatic spell checking.
Stop npp and restest.

Kody James Lynch

Nah doing that didn’t seem to fix it. It’s still doing the same thing. I also tried opening other lua files and those don’t work either. So it seems that I can only open brand new files before I updated notepad++

Ekopalypse

@Kody-James-Lynch

what if you try to open the files via npps menu File->Open?

Kody James Lynch

I tried that as well and it still just crashes.

Ekopalypse

@Kody-James-Lynch

download a zipped npp from here. Extract it to where ever you like and run it.
Try to open a lua file which caused any problem before.
DO NOT install any plugin for this zipped version.
If this works one of the plugins used in your normal installation is not ready
for npp 7.7

Kody James Lynch

Interesting that seemed to work. I might know which plugin is causing this. But thank you for the help!

Віталій Лукіянчук

I have similar issue. Yesterday I worked with notepad++. But today it freezes at start. I didn’t change anything: no system update, no application update. I have 2 users in OS - restricted and admin user. Notepad++ freezes with any of these users.
The only workaround to start it: notepad++.exe -nosession
If it started in such way I can open any of my file via menu File->Open

Starting notepad++ with command -noPlugins causes to freezing too.

Up today my version of Notepad++ was 7.6.6.

So I upgrade it to 7.7 (32bit). And nothing changes - it freezes at start. Only -nosession helps.
I just wonder what may happened with notepad++ overnight?

Віталій Лукіянчук

I just deleted AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\session.xml and it seems problem is solved.

PeterJones

@Віталій-Лукіянчук said:

Only -nosession helps.
…
I just deleted AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\session.xml and it seems problem is solved.

Glad it works for you now. (My guess is that you had either a file that no longer exists, or a file that does exist, but on a network drive rather than a local drive… By ignoring or deleting the old session, it stopped trying to access that file, and was able to properly load Notepad++.)