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Recover unsaved tabs in Notepad++

ATENTION:

Notepad++ saves these temporary files for only a certain amount of time, so there's no guarantee that you will be able to recover your lost tab, specially if it was closed too long before. But it's still worth a shot to avoid losing work.

On Windows:

  • Go to console %APPDATA%\Notepad++\backups

Notes:

  • This is the location that Notepad++ saves, by default, snapshots of the current tabs. If you close one of your tabs without saving, you could recove it from this folder.

  • There's also, in console Settings > Preferences > Backup, some setting that you can tweak so the backup preferences suit your work better.

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Any contributions about how to do this in Linux or MacOS are welcome.

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Nice tip brother!!

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