Notepad ++ 8.3.1 crashes and closes without warning

Saâd HAMANI

Hello, when I installed version 8.3 and 8.3.1, I noticed that my Notepad ++ crashes and closes when I edit a .txt file.
Could you please tell me if this is because of an installed extension? If so, which one?
Thanks in advance.

My debug infos :
Notepad++ v8.3.1 (64-bit)
Build time : Feb 13 2022 - 15:41:12
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 22000.527
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : CodeAlignmentNpp.dll CSScriptNpp.dll CsvQuery.dll HTMLTag.dll ImgTag.dll jN.dll JsMapParser.NppPlugin.dll JSMinNPP.dll Linter.dll mimeTools.dll NavigateTo.dll NppConverter.dll NppEditorConfig.dll NppEventExec.dll NppExec.dll NppExport.dll NppFavorites.dll NppFTP.dll NPPJSONViewer.dll NppRegExTractorPlugin.dll NppXmlTreeviewPlugin.dll PoorMansTSqlFormatterNppPlugin.dll SessionMgr.dll XMLTools.dll _CustomizeToolbar.dll

Saâd HAMANI

I don’t have this problem with version 8.2.1

Saâd HAMANI

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PeterJones

@saâd-hamani ,

Yep. You have a ton of plugins. And v8.3 and v8.3.1 upgraded the way that plugins interface with Notepad++… (it was even mentioned in the announcement posts which I just linked to). Unfortunately, that means that most plugins that worked with v8.2.1 and earlier need to be updated/recompiled by their individual maintainers and then you have to re-install (for most of them, it will have to be a manual re-install of the plugin, because the updated versions are not available from Plugins Admin yet). Some of the big-name plugins have been updated, but others aren’t as actively maintained, and you may have to fill out issues in each plugin’s issues-location and hope that the developer will fix it.

You can run notepad++.exe -noPlugin to disable all plugins, which should make v8.3.1 load properly. And you can load Notepad++ normally, but with the subdirectories in the c:\program files\Notepad++\plugins\ hierarchy renamed, and slowly re-enable plugins, figuring out which ones are working for you and which aren’t.