Reopen Notepad++ after update, restart or shutdown Windows 10 from where I was

Alan Kilborn

You are perhaps living dangerously with this workflow. If I were you, I would name and save files to disk yourself, and then have a separate backup mechanism that doesn’t involve Notepad++.

Andrue Cope

@Ekopalypse It did the same thing. This time though I re-opened my file and it was there when I launched NPP this morning. I usually only give Windows half a minute to shut down then force shut down so I’m guessing that this is what’s tripping me up.

Whether fixing the prompt handling would also fix my typical scenario I don’t know. Possibly not.

Ekopalypse

@Andrue-Cope

Half a minute should be more than enough for an app to save its settings but …
I only have win10 in a VM so it isn’t that convinient to do testing on this
and digging through the code didn’t reveal anything obvious.
Just while writing this I think it might be ok to create some tests using
WM messages only and not restarting the VM always.
I’ll come back on this.

Softone_

I can confirm this as of version 7.9.5.

This is the scenario:

Notepad++ is open and has several open tabs, both named (=saved) and unnamed (new nn) files
Windows 10 performs an automated reboot as part of a bigger update overnight
After logging in, Notepad++ session is lost
unnamed files can be found on the backup dir, but there is no trace of what saved files were open

Notepad++ can remember the session if I manually reboot the win10.

Would it make sense to backup the complete session information also every time the backup is performed?

Thanks,

Joe Halleck

@Softone_
Same issue here with latest version of Windows 10 and Notepad++
I opened an issue with my build details.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9850