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    • Kris Rowlands
      Kris Rowlands last edited by

      My primary action is NP++ is “Save As”, as I’m always saving new files from existing ones.

      When the “save as” window opens, the file type defaults to “all file types”. I’d like this to default to “.txt file”.

      Is there a way to set this as default? Thank you!

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Kris Rowlands last edited by

        @Kris-Rowlands

        Why not forget about all that and just add .txt to the end when you populate the File name: box?

        BTW, it really isn’t a “Save as type” box; it’s a “Show me existing files of this type so that I don’t pick a name for my new file that collides with an existing name” box. It defaults to *.* to show you EVERYTHING you’ve got, and you can change the dropdown to narrow what it is showing you.

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        • Kris Rowlands
          Kris Rowlands last edited by Kris Rowlands

          Adding “.txt” is four more keystrokes that I do not need to type if there is a way to set this as default. If it cannot be set as a default in the “save as type” box, there should be a way to set it in the program itself.

          Thanks for your suggestion, though!

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          • Ekopalypse
            Ekopalypse @Kris Rowlands last edited by

            @Kris-Rowlands

            From Settings->Preferences->Default Directory uncheck Use new style dialog…

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            • Kris Rowlands
              Kris Rowlands @Ekopalypse last edited by

              @Ekopalypse

              There it is! Thank you!

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              • Alan Kilborn
                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

                @Ekopalypse said in Set file type to default to ".txt" file:

                uncheck Use new style dialog…

                Yes, but there are aspects of the “old style” dialog that may not be desirable. So you have to decide if not “typing that 4 extra characters” (which I will point out, needs to be done ONCE for the entire lifetime of a file) is worth that tradeoff.

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                • Ekopalypse
                  Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                  @Alan-Kilborn

                  At the end it depends what one is doing.
                  If most of the time I create a new file by cutting/posting/pasting then
                  this might be the solution - for other tasks it might be not.

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