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    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
    last edited by Nov 25, 2019, 5:04 PM

    @Alan-Kilborn

    No, because unzipping a new version doesn’t delete files,
    it only overwrites existing :-)

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      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
      last edited by Nov 25, 2019, 5:06 PM

      @Ekopalypse

      I guess I didn’t think too much about your entire workflow. :)

      But, taken as a whole, with the OP’s:

      Copy specific files from the new downloaded Zip file to my current Onedrive folder?

      …it does make sense.

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        Prahlad-Makwana4145
        last edited by Nov 27, 2019, 5:23 AM

        Hello, @Loren-Schoepke

        Follow these steps to update notepad++ using zip file :

        Step 1:- Open Run Dialog by clicking Start->run (Notepade++ should be closed).
        Step 2:- Copy this text %APPDATA%\Notepad++ into the text field of Run Dialog.
        Step 3:- Click ok. A folder named Notepad++ will appear.
        Step 4:- Delete these two files : config.xml and stylers.xml.
        Step 5:- After deleting files unzip the zip file.
        Step 6:- After Unzip Launch Notepad++.

        I hope above information will be useful for you.
        Thank you.

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          andrecool-68 @Prahlad-Makwana4145
          last edited by Nov 27, 2019, 9:01 AM

          @Prahlad-Makwana4145
          This will delete all existing your existing program settings.

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            andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
            last edited by Nov 27, 2019, 9:03 AM

            @Ekopalypse
            If you add a copy of the directory with plugins to your script … it will be perfect!

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              Ekopalypse
              last edited by Nov 28, 2019, 1:11 PM

              @andrecool-68
              Hmmm, you and @Alan-Kilborn must have something in mind
              which I’m either not using or unaware of.

              Why do you think that there is a need to include plugins directory?
              I’m using this procedure since a while now and I never came across
              an issue that the plugins directory got corrupted.

              My understanding of unzipping something is, that only those files in
              the current unzip_directory get modified which are part of the zip and
              others do get untouched.
              If files in a zip aren’t in the current unzip_directory they get created.

              What do I miss?

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                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                last edited by Dec 2, 2019, 7:23 PM

                @Ekopalypse

                What do I miss?

                Probably nothing, just different ways and desired ways of updating (in a manual way). Plugins, however, are easy; just copy an entire folder tree from one version to another.

                Here’s my somewhat more in-depth way (compared to your method above) of upgrading the rest:

                Version A = version I have
                Version B = version I’m going to

                • do a file tree compare on an freshly unzipped portable of A and B, noting any differences in files and file contents
                • copy A’s configuration files into B’s tree
                • hand-edit in any new feature’s configuration stuff into the configuration files now in B
                • start using version B

                Maybe the adding of new feature config stuff isn’t strictly necessary, but I always do it, just in case. [An example of might be English.xml or English_customizable.xml. If you don’t find out what the new stuff is in version B, and add it in to what you had going from version A, you can’t customize it later.]

                Usually this is not a intense undertaking, but it can be if you let several versions go by without updating.

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                  Loren Schoepke @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by Dec 18, 2019, 7:53 PM

                  @Ekopalypse

                  Thanks. This worked great!!!

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                    Loren Schoepke @Prahlad-Makwana4145
                    last edited by Dec 18, 2019, 7:55 PM

                    @Prahlad-Makwana4145

                    Didn’t have a “Notepad++” folder". Not sure, but I think this gets created if you do an install. I just used ZIP file.

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                      PeterJones
                      last edited by Dec 18, 2019, 8:03 PM

                      @Loren-Schoepke said in Updating Notepad++ Using Zip File:

                      Didn’t have a “Notepad++” folder". Not sure, but I think this gets created if you do an install. I just used ZIP file.

                      You are correct. By default, an installer-version will use %AppData%\Notepad++ for storing configuration files and a zip (“portable”) version will just use the zip directory (because that’s part of what makes it “portable”).

                      If you would like to maintain a separate %AppData%\Notepad++ but use the zip version, you can delete the doLocalConf.xml from the Notepad+±unzip directory; after that, the next time you run Notepad++, the %AppData%\Notepad++ folder will be created and populated; however, it might* not use the same settings that were in your zipfolder before. (*: caveat = I’ve only tried the deletion of doLocalConf.xml to auto-populate %AppData%\Notepad++ once, and wasn’t specifically looking for this feature, so I didn’t store it in long-term memory; I know it created the folder properly; my memory says that it used default config files, not copies of what’s in your zipfolder, but I could be wrong.)

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