Keep non existing file requires Yes to all and No to all !

First One

Keep non existing file requires Yes to all and No to all ! especially when you have over 1000 files you don’t want to keep.

PeterJones

@First-One ,

1000 files open in Notepad++ at the same time seems to me to be overkill to begin with. (addenda: But maybe I’m just not creative enough to come up with a use case for that. It appears others have found that use case)

However, I can see that even with a dozen files, if they got deleted by some external process, it would be nice to have Yes to All and No to All. And I can confirm that if I open even 3 files with Notepad++ v8.5.3, then it does ask me for each of the files, rather than allowing Yes/No to All. (I had to check, because you didn’t include your ?-menu’s Debug Info in your post, so I didn’t know whether you were using an ancient version that hadn’t been fixed yet, or whether it was still a problem in a recent Notepad++ version.)

If you follow our “FAQ: Feature Request and Bug Report” to make an official request of the developers, make sure you follow their template and include your Debug Info, as well as describe the circumstances of the dialog better than you did here – I had to search the source code for the string at the top of your dialog to even figure out when Notepad++ might give that dialog box, and if you don’t give enough info to the developers, it is possible that they will just ignore your request, which won’t help you or anyone else.

Good luck.

mkupper

@First-One I deal with it by right clicking on the npp tab for any file and selecting one of the Close All options. Normally I use iClose All to the Right which will quickly and quietly close thousands of open tabs for files that have been deleted.

If you are already at the Keep non existing file pop-up then select Yes and then do the Close All thing. You will get a save this file? yes/no prompt for the single file that you had said “yes” on keeping to earlier and can now chose “no” as you don’t care about it.

Alan Kilborn

@mkupper said in Keep non existing file requires Yes to all and No to all !:

I deal with it by right clicking on the npp tab for any file and selecting one of the Close All options. Normally I use iClose All to the Right which will quickly and quietly close thousands of open tabs for files that have been deleted.

If you are already at the Keep non existing file pop-up then select Yes and then do the Close All thing. You will get a save this file? yes/no prompt for the single file that you had said “yes” on keeping to earlier and can now chose “no” as you don’t care about it.

I can only find one thing wrong with this.
It should have started out with the text: PRO TIP:
Seriously, a great tip!
Thanks for sharing.