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I amusing the very latest version 9.9.6 of TextPad, installed on my fully patched Windows 11 PC.

Spell checking used to work fine.

Out of the blue recently, it stopped working correctly.

In particular, it is failing to recognize words that I know that I have added a long time ago ...

bbadmin: sorry for this tardy reply.

I am seeing this Save As bug like crazy with TextPad version 9.8.0. Like 30-50% of the time when I type ctrl-s. But not 100% of the time! And that includes I sometimes see ctrl-s work on a given file and then sometimes fail on that same file.

I am about to ...

Mr. Code Monkey: thank you so much for doing this post, I was about to do the same one.

I see all the bugs that you report.

They are so bad that TextPad 9.0.1 is unusable.

I not only had to de-install 9.0.1 and revert to the latest 8.15.1, I also had to restore my workspace files from my last ...

Have you enabled "Working folder follows active document" on the General preferences page?

That "Working folder follows active document" option does not trigger this bug.

I just installed the latest TextPad (8.9.0), and I have that option checked, and it does not trigger this bug.

Take a look under Configure/Preferences/Backup, and see if the option to "Automatically save every "n" minutes is enabled.

I installed the latest TextPad (8.9.0) on a brand new computer recently.

I started seeing this "Save As" bug in this new version of TextPad, and it was because I had set ...

Take a look under Configure/Preferences/Backup, and see if the option to "Automatically save every "n" minutes is enabled.

Thanks for your reply.

I do indeed have that preference set, however:

1) I have had it set for probably 15+ years now, and have never seen the behavior described in my ...

I just upgraded from a recent version of TextPad 7 to TextPad 8.0.2.

(Aside to the TextPad developers: thank you for continually working to enhance your product! I love Textpad 8's Unicode support, and your file comparison tool is a huge improvement.)

It has mostly been trouble free, but I ...

ak47wong: once again, many thanks for answering!

I recently started seeing some really bizarre behavior on my Textpad instance at work.

Suppose that I have 2 files open in Textpad, and the window for both files is positioned to show the middle of the file (both files span many many screenfulls). Now suppose that I focus on file #1, and scroll ...

Well said!

The release notes for 7.2.0 indicate that this bug has been fixed. I disagree: this context menu bug still seems to be present. The procedure I describe below exhibited the bug immediately after a fresh install of 7.3.0. I should not have had to do any registry editing to have context menu support ...

I have a text file containing some stock index data. I can open it, seemingly fine, in TextPad. (I am using the latest, 5.4.2.) I then select all the contents (Ctrl-A), copy it into the clipboard (Ctrl-C), open up a new window in TextPad, and attempt to paste the contents on the clipboard (from the ...

I am using TP 5.2.

In Preferences, I set .txt files to use Arial Unicode MS for both printer and screen, since that font has great Unicode coverage.

I then tried copying known unicode stuff (Chinese chars copied from a wikipedia page) to a newly created .txt file. The chars, however, always show ...

Not sure why this happen on your computer, but help is working fine on my computer so it's for sure not removed from version 5.2. Are you able to open other ".chm" files without any problems?

Thanks. I had no idea what .chm files were before you pointed this out to me.

Turns out that ALL my .chm ...

I just did a fresh install of TextPad 5.2, but when I click on Help --> Help Topics, my mouse pointer turns into an hourglass for a second, and then nothing--no hep window pops up like it used to.

What is going on? Has help been removed from TextPad?