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We've run into an issue with the new versions of notepad saving your edits to a temp file in the background so that you can continue where you left off without losing changes if you close notepad before saving.

The problem is that this can make it ambiguous whether edits have been saved to the file or not and even someone reopening the file to verify that they remembered to save the information will be fooled into thinking its there.



Sounds like a potential compliance issue too, if you work with sensitive data.


I absolutely hate this feature. It can be effectively disabled, though. I still haven't figured out how to disable the tabs, unfortunately.




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