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rizonesoft
Is there any autosave option?
It has that low priority, cause the days of Windows crashes (and BSoDs) are history (Win XP and before) - aren't they ?
I implemented autorecovery in my fork, some time ago: https://github.com/antiufo/notepad2-mod/commits/recovery
I've actually had a power outage and a crash this week and lost lots of data in both. If Notepad3 had an auto-save feature, especially for unsaved documents, I would have only lost probably 40% of what I did. I'm looking for another notepad replacement option for this reason but I love Notepad3.
Unfortunately, I also faced this problem. My computer got a static shock and restarted. I had a bunch of notes opened that were quite important as I was scribbling things, everything was lost and I now have no way to recover, since these aren't saved anywhere. I'm now using QOwnNotes just because it has autosave
Are we celebrating 1 year anniversary since the last message have been posted here or notepad3 finally got the most important autosave function? 🤔
I just got a power surge... lost Notepad, Notepad3. Woud have saved me 5 days worth of off-the-cuff notetaking, i'm too lazy to sit around naming random files, or even to bother with numbering them, and I'm probably not the only one. The Power surge is actually a less common occurance... but hey it happens. I wish there was an Autosave.
It's sad, but this feature isn't a priority for the project and will never get implemented, which forced me to abandon it. I'd recommend checking out QQOwnnotes, I'd rather keep using Notepad 3, but the unreliability (of Windows) just makes it impossible for me
this is at least for me big problem, crashes dont happen too much, but updates do (stupid windows)
its really important feature
Original premise of this 'autosave' feature request is a bit misleading, the very 'data loss prevention in the case of crash'. Perhaps that is why nothing has been done so far. By the way, more that 1580 days have passed, whereas a pregnancy lasts about 280 days. Let me quote what this is really about from a duplicate by @Zorglubz:
I wish we could close the Notepad and whatever is in would be saved and reappear magically on next launch.
Sublime Text (free evaluation), Codium (free), CudaText (free) can do that, for example.
It's damn convenient. Geez, implement it at last, please.
@sergeevabc Yes I totally agree, recovered documents should appear as dirty/unsaved when you reopen Notepad3. I think it's important for the user to remain in control of how and when a file is "officially" saved.
I was thinking about bringing my old fork from 2017 up to date (the patch is fairly small), but looking at the Notepad3 codebase, I saw partially implemented mentions of "autosave", so I backed out (to avoid duplicate/incompatible implementations)