Directory under "Find in Files"-Search do not remember last folder

[Michael]

Hi,

i had seen on Notepad++ on other customers (older version)
that a search over several files (Find in Files) always stays and remember last used directory

Right now i am using notepad++ version 8.6.4

in my case it is not working and i cannot find the answer for it.
When i do multiple searches over a logfile set in a specific folder it switches back to notepad++ standard folder

is there any option for remembering last directory?

[Alan Kilborn]

@Michael

is there any option for remembering last directory?

It isn’t really about remembering, it is about “not clobbering”.

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If you have the Follow current doc. checkbox checked on the Find in Files window, and then you invoke a search (e.g. by pressing Ctrl+Shift+f) and your file is “soft-named”, e.g. new 1, new 3, etc., then Notepad++ will automatically change the Directory box to contain the folder where notepad++.exe lives. (Note: You can’t do a FIF on soft-named files/tabs anyway – to search these you can do Find All in All Opened Documents, on the Find window).

I presume the above is your circumstance – is this correct?

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The possible solution(s)/workaround(s):

• uncheck Follow current doc. (but I consider this a bad idea because it is most useful when it is checkmarked…YMMV) and Notepad++ will leave the Directory box as you’ve last set it

OR

• take care to invoke a FIF search when the active tab is a file in the folder you want to have appear in the Directory box (or is a top-level file if you are searching a folder tree)

[Alan Kilborn]

There really is no good reason for the Directory box to be auto-populated with the notepad++.exe folder in the case where Find in Files is invoked when a soft-named tab is currently active, thus I’ve created an ISSUE for it (I don’t consider it a bug, just an undesirable).