{"id":26995,"date":"2020-01-09T00:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/howto\/?p=26995"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:40:15","slug":"recover-deleted-or-unsaved-notepad-txt-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/howto\/recover-notepad-files.html","title":{"rendered":"Recover Deleted or Unsaved Notepad (TXT) File"},"content":{"rendered":"

Considering how simple of an application Notepad is, it\u2019s surprising how many people are desperate to know how to recover Notepad files<\/b>. If you count yourself among them, this article is for you because it explains in great detail how to recover deleted Notepad files with the help of data recovery software, the easiest and most effective way to recover permanently deleted Notepad files on Windows<\/a> and Mac<\/a> .<\/p>\r\n

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<\/span>What Are Notepad Files?<\/span><\/h2>\r\n

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Notepad files are really just simple plain text files<\/b> , and they are typically saved with the .txt filename extension<\/b>. Since Notepad doesn\u2019t support any special formatting anyway, plain text files are perfect for it.<\/p>\r\n

One surprising benefit of plain text files is the fact that they are very easy to restore when lost or accidentally deleted. More complex text file formats, such as Microsoft\u2019s .doc and .docx file formats, contain a lot of metadata, which makes them quite large and proportionally more difficult to recover.<\/p>\r\n

There are many specific variations of plain text files and even more encodings. The good news is that you don\u2019t need to worry about them at all to recover .txt files from your computer because our data recovery tool of choice<\/a> , Disk Drill, takes care of everything for you.<\/p>\r\n

<\/span>Are Notepad Files the Same as Notepad++ Files?<\/span><\/h2>\r\n

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Notepad++’s name might be similar to Notepad, but the two apps couldn’t be further apart.<\/p>\r\n

The Notepad that comes with windows is a rudimentary text editor, helpful in taking the occasional note or putting together minimal task lists.<\/p>\r\n

Notepad++<\/a> is a full-blown text editor<\/b> that can also work as a light IDE, as in Integrated Development Environment<\/b>, for writing code in many different programming languages.<\/p>\r\n

Notepad++ and “vanilla” Notepad’s common point is that they primarily work as “plaintext editors<\/b>“. Unlike apps like MS Office Word or LibreOffice Writer, the files they produce don’t have any extra formatting tacked on them.<\/p>\r\n

Such formatting could wreak havoc in a string of code, adding unwanted characters or spacing that could change the way the code was supposed to work.<\/p>\r\n

You don’t need headers, bold text, or pretty images between paragraphs when coding. Instead, you want clear and precise output without errors. Maybe with some extra help in the form of syntax highlighting to show you when you’ve mistyped a command in a particular programming language.<\/p>\r\n

Apart from Notepad++, here’s a list of some of the most popular apps that also work with plaintext files and come with “extra features” for editing text, code, or both:<\/p>\r\n