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    • Yair BY Offline
      Yair B
      last edited by

      Hello,

      Usually when I reopen Notepad++ he shows me the last item (file/page) I worked on, even though it’s not saved on disk.
      My computer crashed and died and I want to restore my item that I guess was on a temp file - and NOT saved by me.
      So can you please tell me where I can find in the file directory this item-file?
      I really want to restore my data…

      Thank you

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      • mkupperM Offline
        mkupper @Yair B
        last edited by mkupper

        @Yair-B Look in the %APPDATA%\Notepad++\backup folder. If you are using a portable version of Notepad++ then its backup folder will be a sub-folder of where you are running that copy of Notepad++ from.

        The backup files are named filename@YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS where filename is the original file name, and YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS is the time stamp of when the backup of that file was created.

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        • Mark OlsonM Offline
          Mark Olson
          last edited by

          There’s also the %AppData%\Local\Temp\Notepad++ RECOV folder. The files in that folder will have the .dump extension. Don’t know how reliably N++ will write unsaved files to that folder, but it’s worked pretty well for me recently.

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