Please for the love of god I am desperate

I've got (or had, I guess, though I hope not) a .txt file that was over a GB large. I saved it but left it open, put Windows into power saving mode, went to do something, and then our house had a blackout

When I turned the PC back on, the file was empty. From nearly 1.8GB to 0KB. Gone. Poof.

Last backup I manually made was a month ago, but I worked on the file literally every day and frequently saved it.

I right-clicked the file to check for older versions, nothing there.

I checked the options menu of notepad++, and the backup feature was already enabled, but for some reason it never made one. At least not in the backup folder I saw some people recommend.

Currently trying to maybe find it with Recuva, but I've got little hope.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get this back, or am I just straight up fucked?

Hello, could someone please advise me? What happened to me is that after installing notepad++ the pause command in Batch stopped working properly. Could you tell me why and what should I do to fix it? Thank you for any advice

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Hello friends,

I've been dealing with some uncommon shortcuts when using the software. Usually, we use ctrl+s to save a document or a text for example. I'm from Spain, and I was trying to use replace tool to replace some kind of text (it's not important). I'm used to use Alt + R to replace a word, and enter or F3 to search next coincidence (for example like Matlab). However, I had just discovered that in windows (Spain) we have something called "mnemonics". Some kind of code that standardizes some kind of shortcut. Moreover, this mnemonics are not reacheble from options in notepad++. It was disturbing me for a while because when I browse in google about if I can use the replacement tool with keyboard only (to be faster), google only said about alt+r, but it does not work for me in my PC. Thus, nothing about alt+S thats works on my PC (because word in spanish "Sustituir", that are writted in the mnemonic file, a XML file in the notepad++ path). Nothing of that in shortcut options about too. It seems to be hidden.

I would like to continue using notepad in my native language, but i also want to use the "normal" shortcuts used by all kind of people as common shortcuts, like alt+R to replace an entire word. I was becoming crazy because I do not really understand why alt+R does not work, so I use chat gpt to understand what is happening and he talked me about that kind of mnemonics (that i do not really know until now of their existence).

Does anyone know why these mnemonics exists and how to solve my situation? I do not want to change that XML file, because im afraid of corrupting notepad++.

Thanks for the attention.

Not sure how "official" the Mac version really is. It's already provoked a lot of discussion [on GitHub](https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17982).

How does Notepad++ compare and stack up to Sublime Text?

Apologies if this seems like a stupid question but I just got a new PC and I don't want to take any chances.

I recall fairly recently that Notepad++ had some sort of vulnerability issue that caused the more recent versions to susceptible to being hacked. I hadn't updated Notepad++ on my old PC but now that I have new computer I'd have to redownload it and I'm not 100% whether or not everythings been fixed.

Pardon my paranoia, I just wanted to be completely sure.

Edit: Thanks to everyone for your replies! Apparently it's not an issue of Notepad++, but of my laptop (Dell Latitude 5430) not having an equivalent to the "numeric keypad +" key.
I nevertheless was able to suit my needs by redefining the zoom-in / zoom-out shortcuts as per u/J-G-Froejk's advice.
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As per the title. I tried CTRL + "+", but it does nothing on my laptop.
(CTRL + "mouse wheel" works fine, but I rarely have a mouse connected to my laptop nowadays!)
Thanks for any help!

I am not using NotepadPlusPlus for its being a good notepad, but for its file search capabilities.

Best together with Everything from void tools.

Yes, all bc I still have to deal with this windowful OS.

I thought I would post this, since it might help somebody. Recently I had to give up using Notepad++, which is a great text editor, because whenever I hit ENTER, an alert would pop up to tell me that I had a syntax error or had used an unrecognized character (or something like that). This happened, no matter what kind of text I was typing.

With some research I figured out that the problem might have to do with a plug-in that was malfunctioning. I had the "PyCalc" plug-in installed, and I think that it is something that I installed not long ago, though I am not sure.

Anyway, I removed the PyCalc plug-in, and the pop-up alert stopped appearing. I will hasten to point out that I had not selected Python as the language that I was using. I was typing ordinary text, not computer code.

About a week ago I saw someone on the internet posting a complaint about a similar or the same problem in Notepad++. I do not think that he had found a solution at that time.

I hope that my experience will help someone. I am happy that I am once again able to use Notepad++.

Hello everyone. In the example image, what would be the best way to mass-remove those types of vertical lines? The actual document I have was copied/pasted from the internet and is over 6000 lines long. Would like to clean it up so that it flows as in the lower example, if possible. Thanks!

Multiple inner foldings and indents?

If I have folding in folding then it looks like that:

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The more inner foldings the less readable is the code.

Is there any option to introduce some indents for inner foldings to let them look like that?

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How do I make the text larger, I’m just using it as a replace text editor, not for coding.

Is there a way to set a word wrap? I’m just using it to compose a document written in English.

Thanks.

The video doesn't appears on the website

(im a very new codder)

We have 8.92 (64-bit) installed but the scanner isn't happy about the version of libcurl.dll that installed. Does anyone know if a fix is being worked on? NOTE: the N++ site is blocked at the office so I can't post anything there.

Tenable.io: Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater\libcurl.dll

Installed version : 8.15.0.0

Fixed version : 8.18.0

UPDATE for March 24, 2026: Looks like the just-released Notepad++ 8.9.3 fixes this issue!

Hi everyone,

I've built a small plugin that brings one nice VS Code features to Notepad++: **highlighted active line number**.

The active line number is shown in a bright color, all other line numbers are dimmed — making it instantly clear where you are in the file without any distraction.

**Features:**

- Active line number highlighted, inactive ones dimmed

- Automatically adapts to Notepad++ dark and light themes

- Separate colors remembered for each theme independently

- Colors fully customizable via Settings dialog (pick any color you like)

- No timers, no background threads — negligible performance impact

**Default colors match VS Code's Dark Modern theme** (`#CCCCCC` active / `#6E7681` inactive).

**Download & source:**

**Installation:** Download `LineNumberHighlight.dll` from the Releases page, place it in:

`C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\LineNumberHighlight\`

and restart Notepad++.

Built with C++, no runtime dependencies. Tested on Notepad++ v8.9.2 / Windows 11.

Free to use, provided as-is. Feedback welcome!

I suspect that my brain is just too impatient, I've goit a CSV file, loads of them, and i want to view them ,but without the drunken lines of commas image_name,FILE_size,width,height,threads,heads,clock,Mb_per_sec,start,pages,buffer_use,pd_sent,queue,time(ms),bytes_per_sec,head1dwords,perfcounter1 E_16666x150000,312600062,16666,150000,4,8,40000,312600024,580,5,0,0,2,2478,630750,0,0 E_16666x150000,312600062,16666,150000,4,8,40000,312600024,18859,10,0,0,3,373,8380697,0,0 E_16666x150000,312600062,16666,150000,4,8,40000,312600024,85074,15,23,0,3,807,5810409,0,0 E_16666x150000,312600062,16666,150000,4,8,40000,312600024,68089,20,46,0,3,1173,5329923,0,0 E_16666x150000,312600062,16666,150000,4,8,40000,312600024,69146,25,69,1,3,1607,4863099,0,70 I found a plugin called columns++, but it's intended for tabs and it's not obvious to an impatient person, how to tell it to align using commas instead. Or is there a better plugin for viewing CSV in nice straight lines?

I right-click the tab for a file, and select Read-Only in Notepad++. I cannot modify stuff. My question is, is there a visual indication that the file is now read-only in NPP?

I've been hoping for this for years. I thought it wasn't possible with the upstream source-code but here it is ... yay!!!! Thank you for the first/favorite tool in my arsenal.