All configs lost
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Hello,
I’m using Npp since years and that’s the first time I fall in that trouble…
As many time before, I open my “hosts” file (in “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc”) and when I want to save it, it ask me to reload Npp in admin mode. I click “restart” and then it close then reopen Npp, as usual, but there… all my configs disapear ! It look like Npp after a fresh install :/.Is there a way to get back to my previous config please ? Is it a known bug ? If yes, how to fix it, please ?
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I had a similar issue once, some time ago.
For me the problem was, that the “original/first” notepad++ process
didn’t exit cleanly and another npp process was created.
Not sure if this is your case as well but as soon as I made sure
that no other npp process was running,
a newly create npp process behaved like expected. -
Hello @Ekopalypse !
Thanks for your answer.
Perhaps this is the problem… but did you find any solution to get back your previous settings ? Mine has gone, and it seems that I can’t get them back :'(. -
For me a new start of npp, after ensuring that no other npp process still runs, fixed it.
Can you post your debug-info? (available under the last menu item, the ? menu)
Maybe we can find a way to bring it back. -
@Ekopalypse sadly nop, a restart let it in the same state :/.
Here are my debug infos :
Notepad++ v7.7.1 (64-bit)
Build time : Jun 16 2019 - 21:24:47
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppFTP.dll -
Local Conf mode : OFF
give the information, that your configuration data is stored in %APPDATA%\notepad++
If you press CTRL+R or the windows key and paste this into the field and
press enter it will open an explorer window pointing to the need directory.Can you check if there is a config.xml file and when it got created and modified?
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@Ekopalypse I have a config.xml in “C:\Users\myUserName\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++” and it was last modified… the last time I have closed Npp (just right now) :'(. So I guess it erase my previous settings…
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ok - so it looks like we can be sure that this is the right directory.
Now, depending on your windows setup you might be able to get a previous version of that file by right-clicking on that file an choose
properties and select tab previous versions.If there is nothing, one other possible way to get an older version is to
use a software like recuva and do a deep search with the full appdata path. -
@Ekopalypse
YOU
ARE
AMAZING !Thanks so much, I’ve restored a previous version (just before the fail), and all seems to be OK right now.
Thank you so much ! -
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