I had installed notepad++ using Softwares in my Ubuntu 18.04, which installed notepad++ using snap. Now, for some reason, my notepad++ is not opening. But I want to get all the unsaved text files I had opened in my previous session. Where can I find these unsaved files?
Most of the questions on web deal with Windows, but not for ubuntu. They usually say that the files are saved in a folder named backup. I searched in the home directory, snap directory. I couldn't find any folder named backup.
My guess would be somewhere below ~/.local or maybe ~/.cache.
I'd try a find for files in the home directory that have changed during the last 3 days (or whenever you used it last):
find ~ -mtime -3
Or maybe start first with ~/.local to avoid dozens of web browser cache files scrolling by:
find ~/.local -mtime -3
On the following Ubuntu:
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Backup files are located in:
/home/$USER/snap/notepad-plus-plus/common/.wine/drive_c/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/Notepad++/backup/
$USER is used to get the current user name in your system.
In my case,
$ ls /home/$USER/snap/notepad-plus-plus/common/.wine/drive_c/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/Notepad++/backup/
'new 1@2023-07-24_131201' 'new 1@2023-07-25_225938' 'new 1@2023-07-27_000008' 'new 1@2023-07-30_215759' 'new 1@2023-08-01_145110'
'new 1@2023-07-24_154340' 'new 1@2023-07-26_220545' 'new 1@2023-07-28_122836' 'new 1@2023-08-01_120730' 'new 1@2023-08-01_145923'
On the other hand, you can view and edit your backup path for Notepad++: Open Notepad++ and click Settings > Preferences > Backup
In order to avoid previous session snapshot case, I modified it as: Backup on save > Verbose backup > Custom Backup Directory > C:\users\USERNAME\Desktop\BackupNotepad
Instead of "C:\users\USERNAME\Desktop\BackupNotepad", place directory whatever you would like. Verbose backup basically adds a timestamp when saving the file.
