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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @Greg Parrott
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      @Greg-Parrott

      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++.

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      • Andrue CopeA
        Andrue Cope @Ekopalypse
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        @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.

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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse @Andrue Cope
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          @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.

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          • S
            Softone_
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            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,

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            • Joe HalleckJ
              Joe Halleck @Softone_
              last edited by

              @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

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