Notepad++ cached files location

Question

On the most recent versions of Notepad++, when the application is closed, unsaved files are maintained when the application is restarted.

I presume that those files are

Answer 1

I have discovered that NotePad++ now also creates a subfolder at the file location, called nppBackup. So if your file lived in a folder called c:/thisfolder have a look to see if there's a folder called c:/thisfolder/nppBackup.

Occasionally I couldn't find the backup in AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup, but I found it in nppBackup.