Session lost after Windows 10 update, recovery options?
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Windows ran an update while my system was sleeping. N++ has always come up fine after updates so I just started it. It opened to a new session. I closed it then checked AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ and found session.xml and config.xml had recent time stamps.
Are there any recovery options for my previous session?
Are there any suggestions about how to prevent this? (Other than the obvious “be a better sysadmin,” #humor ) -
A session configuration is written when you exit Npp.
So after you started and closed Npp, it overwrote these settings. If you have used temporary files within the session, you can check the backup directory to see if they still exist. -
So it sounds like Window’s winning streak of well-behaved shut-downs has been broken. I’ll just have to be more vigilant when they announce the next one.
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@Ekopalypse All my open files were saved so nothing of note in the recent directory, thanks for the heads-up.
And AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\session.XML is the only copy of the session, correct?
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If it is an installed version, then yes, that is the one being used, otherwise it would be the one from the directory where notepad++.exe is.
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Maybe, periodic backup might help you in the future.
Take a look at the options in Preferences > Backup. -
@mere-human said in Session lost after Windows 10 update, recovery options?:
Maybe, periodic backup might help you in the future.
Take a look at the options in Preferences > Backup.periodic backup applies only to files that are being edited in the editor, not to the config files. The OP’s complaint is that the session information was lost.
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@PeterJones said in Session lost after Windows 10 update, recovery options?:
The OP’s complaint is that the session information was lost.
Well, probably that was one aspect of it.
The actual “data loss” was probably more important, which might be what @mere-human was meaning…getting the actual “files” back.
But of course you need the “pointers” to the file (session.xml) to know you have all of them. -
@Alan-Kilborn said in Session lost after Windows 10 update, recovery options?:
What data loss are you referring to?
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@Ekopalypse said in Session lost after Windows 10 update, recovery options?:
What data loss are you referring to?
Well, OP said he lost his existing session in favor of some presumably empty one.
The presumption is that he had a session of a bunch of unsaved, unnamed, temporary files.
In such a case, which is one that I do not operate under myself, haven’t you lost track of all of your “files”?As you said, you might find them in the backup directory…
Ah, okay, I later see OP said:
All my open files were saved
So that’s a good thing.
But this is probably not how most people that ask such a question as the OP’s original actually work.
