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I had to immediate shut down, and I lost about 20 unsaved tabs, is there any way to recover these?

kels
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    notepad++ bydefault saves the recent documents. so that if you do not change this settings it may be chance to get unsaved tabs otherwise not. – Akshay Pethani Sep 21 '15 at 08:42

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Is there any way to recover unsaved files?

Notepad++ will autosave if configured to do so.

  • The default "Backup path" is %APPDATA%\Notepad++\backup (or <Notepad++ install directory>\backup). Look in this directory for any backup files.

  • Goto menu "Settings" > "Preferences" > "Backup" tab to see your configuration.

  • If "Enable session snapshot and periodic backup" has been checked then there will a "Backup path" configured.

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When was the "Session snapshot and periodic backup" feature introduced?

In version 6.6.x:

As a reminder, the main feature of v6.6.x is Session snapshot & periodic backup - user won't be asked to save unsaved file as he quits Notepad++, and on startup Notepad++ restores the unsaved file and unsaved untitled document of last session. Such periodic backup of unsaved files will protects your data from the PC crashing or power outage.

You can always turn off this feature to get back the old behaviour: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/assets/images/sessionSnapshot.png

Source Notepad++ 6.6.2 released

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I had also lost my one notepad++ file but I was able to recover that file from following location:

C:\Users\myUserName\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup

I am using Windows 7.

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    This answer is useful because this is the default directory for this purpose - so if anyone just wants to go directly for the prize, without even opening Notepad++, this is probably it. – pgr Sep 14 '17 at 12:48
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    This saved a database creation script I was shitting squirrels about losing. It's worth mentioning that for me, unsaved files were backed up there but saved ones were not. – HB- Dec 20 '17 at 00:15
  • this worked for me – Uriahs Victor Apr 09 '18 at 19:23
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    This will work (via copy paste) vs your pseudo path: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming – George 2.0 Hope Mar 30 '20 at 17:12
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    `%APPDATA%` is what you should be using (as users folder might not be located at `C:\Users`) – Franz B. Sep 09 '20 at 09:57
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In case if Notepad++ was not able to create the backup file and had crashed, it tries to create the *.dump files that could be found at the following path:

C:\Users\<windowsusernamehere>\AppData\Local\Temp\N++RECOV\
kels
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    In my case for some reason it had issues with a lot of files that I have been using several days and they were not in the backup path but they were in this path. – Dzyann Dec 21 '16 at 21:58
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    Worth noting that even if your files have their name mangled and end in .DUMP, notepad++ seems to be able to open them just fine. – Daniel Vestøl Jan 29 '18 at 13:39
  • Mine was in %AppData%\Roaming\Notepad++\backup – DarthCaniac Oct 06 '20 at 10:13