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PLS HELP NOTEPAD++ FILLED MY FILE WITH ZEROS

2008-03-20
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    iam running vista 32 bussines on asus V1S notebook

    i was working on my file in npp, i saved, and when i saved, a bluescreen od death appeared.. so i restarted my pc, but then i get shocked, when the file i hade opened get filled with zeros (in hex), about the same size, as it was with normal content

    i used recuva, and restored 2 files in the directory where the 0 corrupt page is...smt ve-C5EE.tmp ...but one was relative old 5hours ago, and the 2th was younger, but was filled only to 1/3 (60kb was original, this was 20kb)...

    doesnt make npp some temp? or is there a way to get back my data? i also tried to look in %TEMP by didnt find anything usefull there

    PLS HELP

     
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Is this another hard lesson in the course of working safely and backing up your (important) files?

      Create a back-up copy before editing a file, or just work on a copy which eventually may be the next version of the original.

      I still recommend some changes in Notepad++ that will allow a somewhat safer handling of files and editing them.

      "Feature Request: allow editing read-only file"
      http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1731264&forum_id=331753

       
      • Nobody/Anonymous

        the backup option should be default enabled for files, lets say smaller than 1MB

         
        • Nobody/Anonymous

          Well, you might have taken a look into the preferences before.

          Menu____ : Settings
          Option__ : Preferences...
          Tab_____ : Backup/Auto-completion
          Group___ : Backup

           
          • Nobody/Anonymous

            You also may want to take a look at the following thread.

            "Auto Save function"
            http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1965196&forum_id=331753

            Or just look at the following page for a short explanation of the AutoSave Plug-In.

            "Franco Stellari's Home Page Notepad++ plugins"
            http://fstellari.googlepages.com/npp_plugins

             
          • Nobody/Anonymous

            i didnt thought this can happen... file crash recovery would be nice (like by OpenOffice or Office)

            where does notepad store tmp files???

             
            • Nobody/Anonymous

              in memory, which is volatile and gets reset on a restart after a BSOD.

               
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