Please, don't tell me I've lost all my Notepadd++ docs!
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Hello.
Today the operating system of my tabletop personal computer, some version of Windows, restarted the PC automatically for an update of some kind.
Before doing this, it first closed Notepad++, which was open.
Now, I had literally hundreds, probably thousands of Notepad++ that I hadn’t yet saved, some with a lot of original content in them that would be impossible to reconstrue.
Please, don’t tell me I’ve lost all of those.
If I remember correctly, once you start writing stuff on a Notepad++ sheet, that sheet is automatically, be default, made into a saved file, even though you haven’t saved it yourself by giving it a filename and deciding in which location of your hard disk you want it stored.
Is this accurate?
If so, where are these automatically saved files?
For the hell of me, I can’t find the dedicated directory, it it even exists.
I’m desperate.
Can you help me?
Thank you very much.
M.
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@Marauder999 said in Please, don't tell me I've lost all my Notepadd++ docs!:
Please, don’t tell me I’ve lost all of those.
Only you will be able to determine that. There is a FAQ post here which can get you started. Come back with any more questions.
This has been a common issue over the ages. it primarily exists due to the user not understanding what the process is really designed for. Many posts over the same period reiterate the same message “save, save, save…”. If you have critical data do NOT rely solely on a process which you haven’t fully understood.
Sorry to be blunt but that is how it is.
Good luck
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You are right, and I will read that FAQ.
That having been said, I think I tried the dedicated folder in my PC:
My PC —> Disk C —> Users —> User —> AppData —> Roaming —> Notepad++ —> backup
I tried to search for a keyword in that folder to ascertain whether one of the latest unsaved-by-me, but possibly-automatically-saved docs is there but so far nothing tuned up, but I’m not sure this is a valid method to find that out.
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If that location equates to
%AppData%\Notepad++\backup\which is thedefaultlocation for the auto save functionality then you may already be too late. As I said, that post has all the necessary info. You need to first determine if that location is indeed the one Notepad++ is/was using.I’m doubting you have read much of the FAQ post yet. That is the definitive helper post for you.
Terry
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How do I know if this path:
My PC\Disk C\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup
equals the one you provided?
%AppData%\Notepad++\backup
Why do you say it’s probably too late?
I went to the part of my hard disk the first path leads to, and ordered all the Notepad++ files according to the time they were last modified.
Well, the file on top of the list appears to be exactly the way it was the moment it all went tumbling down a few hours ago.
So it seems I have been miracled after all.
M.
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@Marauder999 said in Please, don't tell me I've lost all my Notepadd++ docs!:
Why do you say it’s probably too late?
At any rate, I went to the part of my hard disk the first path leads to, and ordered all the Notepad++ files according to the time they were last modified.
Your last post said a search in that folder turned up nothing. That’s why I said it might be too late.
You need to read that post first. In a Windows command line there are environment variables. Open the command line and type
setand enter. You will see APPDATA as a variable. That’s what the %appdata% is. In File Explorer type in the path line %appdata% and see where it leads to.Terry
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I don’t know, though, why there is a vertical orange line thing going on in that sheet whenever I now type something new into it.
Well, whatever.
M.
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@Marauder999 said in Please, don't tell me I've lost all my Notepadd++ docs!:
I don’t know, though, why there is a vertical orange line thing going on in that sheet whenever I now type something new into it.
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23616/faq-new-change-history-feature
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Thank you!
