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What does “cloud config” mean? I just downloaded the portable version and that’s it. I didn’t configure that.
Where did you download the portable? Because the default setting of Settings > Preferences > Cloud & Link > Settings On Cloud is
No Cloud, but your Debug Info shows that there’s a setting there. So either you configured it, or you didn’t download Notepad++ from an official source. (If you downloaded from portable apps dot com, delete it immediately! We have no idea what changes they make when they re-bundle things, and they are known to break Notepad++ features when they rebundle)Also, please go to Settings > Preferences > Multi-Instance & Date, do Alt+PrintScreen, and paste that image directly into your reply here. If you have “always in multi-instance mode” checked on, that will explain the problem; if not, then showing us that may give us other ideas.
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@Detlev-Hochmuth said in Why start with only “new” tab from taskbar?:
What does “cloud config” mean? I just downloaded the portable version and that’s it. I didn’t configure that.
I think it might be a way of making sure the portable version stays self-contained. So it uses the configuration files within it’s own directory. I’ve never delved much into the portable setup, I just know it’s self-contained and doesn’t get added to any PATHs (by default).
Do you still have your old Windows 7 system so you can look through the debug (and other) info there? There will be some differences, it’s just a case of spotting where it is.
At this point I’ve run out of ideas, maybe another forum member might have some other things to check.
Good luck
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I need and enjoy Notepad++ so much, I couldn’t afford to delve deeper into this matter. I am sure this is a bug of the portable version. The behaviour makes no sense whatsoever.
I now deleted the portable version and installed the normal full version. Now everything works as intended.
Thanks for your efforts.
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@Detlev-Hochmuth said in Why start with only “new” tab from taskbar?:
I am sure this is a bug of the portable version.
It may well be a deficiency on the part of the portable version, in so much as the way it’s sets up the environment.
It might have been an interesting question for you to ponder and test more fully but I understand. Sometimes we just want to get on with things.
Unfortunately whilst it may be an issue, unless more research is done it may never be solved.
Terry
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@Terry-R said in Why start with only “new” tab from taskbar?:
It may well be a deficiency on the part of the portable version, in so much as the way it’s sets up the environment.
Too many variables that weren’t, and obviously aren’t going to be, pinned down to draw any conclusions here.
But, the portable version doesn’t do any “setting up” of the “environment”, and that’s by-design. So if there’s some “set up” that would need to be done that allows…nvm…typing any more about this issue is dumb, because there are simply way too many variables and unknowns.
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@PeterJones said in Why start with only “new” tab from taskbar?:
Because the default setting of Settings > Preferences > Cloud & Link > Settings On Cloud is No Cloud, but your Debug Info shows that there’s a setting there.
I just got around to testing the 8.4.9 portable version. I had an older 7.9 portable version which didn’t list a cloud option. And the new one didn’t either. That’s when I spotted your post @PeterJones. I agree, this smacks of an “unofficial” version.
Terry
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I want to say that we typically see postings here about the “portable apps” versions with “…\PortableApps\…” just like that in the file path. OP didn’t have that; made me think that OP truly has the official N++ portable version, and just put it in a “…\Portable\…” filepath.
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@Alan-Kilborn said in Why start with only “new” tab from taskbar?:
made me think that OP truly has the official N++ portable version, and just put it in a “…\Portable\…” filepath.
Possibly, but what’s confusing is OP states it already had the cloud config setup and they didn’t do it. We know that isn’t the case. So either they have missed telling us they copied across an old config from the previous installation, or something else such as it being an “unofficial” version.
Whichever the reason, the problem we see time and time again is the OP will give us information they think pertinent to the question. It’s up to us as seasoned users to elicit that final bit of the puzzle that suddenly makes it all clear.
We may not get an answer as they’ve now gone with the full version and seem happy. They may never return, since they only created the NPP forum account to get an answer to something they’ve resolved themselves.
Terry
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@Terry-R said in Why start with only “new” tab from taskbar?:
what’s confusing is OP states it already had the cloud config setup and they didn’t do it
We also have consider how reliable their memory might be. :-)
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@Detlev-Hochmuth ,
Hmm…for one thing, it doesn’t look like you have the double-click hack setup to enable NPP to open files that way in either of those Debug info readouts. Apparently you got it fixed by going to your full version, and that’s nice, but that doesn’t answer the question of why you expected double clicking a file (in File Explorer presumably) to open it in NPP.
