Closed one of my old tab in Notepad++

[Siddharth J]

So accidently closed one of my old tabs in Notepad++, Further I checked it in Appdata/Roaming/Notepad++/Backup & does not see that tab/file there, Any suggestion further.?

[PeterJones]

@Siddharth-J ,

As soon as you close the tab, Notepad++ deletes the periodic-backup auto-save file.

Unfortunately, at this point, about your only option is to use file recovery software like Recuva.

[Siddharth J]

Alright, thanks, Is there any specific name, I should be looking at when searching the Recuva search of files it retrieves.?

[PeterJones]

@Siddharth-J ,

Scan the directory that you mentioned. the filename will be based on the original file “name” (new 1 or whatever it was) plus some timestamp.

In the next rev of the online User Manual, this will be more explicit: