I would like to restore a previous version of file that has been saved. My computer has crashed during work on one of the Files in Notepad++. When I started it again it went blank and a few days of my work are basically gone.
Is there any way to restore it?
I know this question is ancient, but I thought someone would benefit from my solution. I had NP++ crash while trying to save my file and the result was losing not only the changes but the original file as well. I did some digging around in the directory structure of my user account (C:\users\<user>\) and found that there is a handy temporary folder for NP++. It had the copy of my file which was to be written to the disk.
Check this location if you have the same problem and are using Windows 7: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup
Notepad++ does have file versioning.
In Settings > Preferences > Backup there is an option "Verbose backup".
This saves a new copy of the file into the "Custom Backup Directory". The current date/time is appended to the filename.
With "Simple backup" just the previous version of the file is saved.
I encounter a similar problem, where I overwrote an important file in Notepad++ and thankfully I was able to go to the file location, I right-clicked on the file, and selected "restore previous versions". From there I chose the latest version prior to the override and everything looks good for me.
