Q: Over-reliance on notepad++?
A: probably, but better than over-reliance on complex tools like MSWord or Excel. If I choose to rely on some productivity tool, it had better be fairly simple. The simpler, the more reliable. Usually, the most powerful tools are not very simple, so we need to strike a balance between reliability (+simplicity) vs power (+feature)

Let’s not spend too much time documenting this, as it may not happen again.

category — same as notepad++ posts…

–The story

Today my notepad++ always starts in a permanent freeze, apparently stuck while loading a file that I loaded yesterday. I notice the file is from a network drive mounted from a Linux host. Even though I only want to load a local Windows .txt file, notepad++ still tries to load that Linux file and get frozen.

PC restart didn’t help at all.

How serious is this problem? I am unable to use notepad++ to open any of my .txt files, including all my personal notes.

My tip — I renamed the file from inside Linux. Then I restarted notepad++. Notepad++ didn’t load that Linux file and able to start quickly.