Restoring data of Notepad++ and Firefox extensitions (stylish) from other Hard Disk

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I had a hardware issue with my computer and I needed to reinstall Windows. I installed it on another HD without touching my previous HD. Now I have basically two HDs: one with the old Windows 8.1 (it doesn't boot) and the one with the new installed Windows 8.1.

The thing is, I have some very important, but unsaved data inside of the Notepad++. Notepad++ can store opened tabs inside of it without necessarily forcing to save it in to a file. The question is: how do I restore this data? I have access to all of the HD – what should I look for and where?

Another problem is my styles... hours of work... It's the Firefox add-on called "stylish". I don't know how to access it. I know the path to my profile folder, but can't find any of them – again, what and where exactly should I look for?

I hope you can help me with this.

yezepuzune

Posted 2017-08-31T19:09:07.713

Reputation: 21

do you mean the location of your files on the old HDD? – antzshrek – 2017-08-31T19:18:38.647

I don't need the location, I need the data, the information inside of them. So basically I need to: 1) find them 2) find the way to open it - or in other word - get the information – yezepuzune – 2017-08-31T19:20:12.853

I guess if you have access to the location, you should be able to find the files and view them right? – antzshrek – 2017-08-31T19:21:59.917

Yes, of course. But I didn't saved my data into files(of notepad++)... Notepad++ has the option to close it self without saving the data into a files, it stores it somehow else for temporary usage. As for stylish, I simply don't know where to look for it. I found that for chrome it would be some "database" file or folder, but there is no such one in firefox profile – yezepuzune – 2017-08-31T19:27:42.050

Answers

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Notepad++

Your text documents

  1. Locate and open Notepad++ directory.*
  2. Open session.xml file to see its content.
  3. At each row starting with tag <file you can see backupFilePath="somePath" attribute. That somePath is backup path of that file, if there was a backup. Otherwise the value is empty.

Your Notepad++ configuration

In your N++ directory*, please focus on this subset of XML files:

config.xml         - general configuraion, mainly from Preferences dialog
contextMenu.xml    - customized context menu (right-click in text file)
nativeLang.xml     - Notepad++ UI translation currently in use
session.xml        - list of open files and some of their stuff (bookmarks etc.)
shortcuts.xml      - settings from Shortcut Mapper
stylers.xml        - settings from Style Configurator
userdefinelang.xml - user defined languages

By viewing these files you can easily learn what parts of configuration they contain and either restore everything or only required parts of configuration.

*) Based on your Notepad++ installation, this can be in your %APPDATA% directory, i.e. in different directory than the Notepad++.exe file is located. If you are not sure where it is, search your backup for session.xml file (or other XML files listed above).
 

Firefox Stylish plugin

C:\users\YOURNAME\appdata\roaming\Mozilla\firefox\profiles\*.default\stylish.sqlite

Again, searching just for stylish.sqlite can help.

miroxlav

Posted 2017-08-31T19:09:07.713

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