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    • Rowan Sylvester-BradleyR
      Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
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      I’m running Notepad++ version 8.1.2. When I try to install the 8.1.4 update (which I believe is the latest) it gives me the error
      Notepad Update Error.

      How do I get this update to work?

      Thanks - Rowan

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
        last edited by PeterJones

        @Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley ,

        This sounds like another instance of this, though that questioner never came back and reported results; and maybe also this that was posted at about the same time as yours.

        Based on your and @Oz-M 's reports, I think that the update to Windows 10 ver 20H2 changed the permissions in the C:\Program Files hierarchy, meaning that your normal user account doesn’t have write permission to that directory hierarchy anymore.

        Could you follow my advice from that post:

        Make sure that you have proper write-permissions in the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\ and C:\Program Files\Notepad++\functionList\ directories. You might have to run the installer in Run as Administrator mode to get Windows to give you those permissions, or use Windows Explorer’s right click Properties > Security > Edit (or Advanced) to give your normal user permission on those directories.

        Also, make sure that when you run the installer, you don’t have another instance of Notepad++ running, and that no other application has c.xml open. (To make sure this is true, you may want to reboot before running the installer.)

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