Textpad is set to autosave every 5 minutes, but when a forced reboot crashed, it lost a lot of text. One report says it's in the user/appData/Roaming/Helos file, but it is not there.
Searching for any bat file finds none.
I have had to redo stuff many times, unable to find any autosave/backups.
I am using Win 10 latest updates and TextPad 8.2.0 64 bit. I have used Textpad for many decades, and other than autosave very much like it.
Where backups saved
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"Automatically save" and "Backup" are two different things, but both can be changed thru file menu "Configure" > "Preferences" > tree item "Backup".
"Backup files" means that every time a file is saved its previous content is copied to a separate file with almost the same name. One of the options let's you choose one path for all - this should be the same location where "automatically save" files are created.
Did you test "Automatically save" at all? Create a new document, write one word, then wait 15 minutes to see if such an automatically saved file was created. Was that done? Should be. The help tells you that when TextPad exits normally those files are deleted automatically - your event "a forced reboot crashed" could still fit this, as we can't know when (programs still have time to close gracefully) and how (bluescreen? frozen?) it crashed. However, TextPad must at least have asked if you want to save files with a dialog, which blocks exiting TextPad (again this can be tested by just killing TextPad in such a situation to then check if the files are still there).
I have no idea if new documents are automatically saved, too, but they sure cannot have a backup when not even a file of it exists. Why didn't you save a new file right away?
"Backup files" means that every time a file is saved its previous content is copied to a separate file with almost the same name. One of the options let's you choose one path for all - this should be the same location where "automatically save" files are created.
Did you test "Automatically save" at all? Create a new document, write one word, then wait 15 minutes to see if such an automatically saved file was created. Was that done? Should be. The help tells you that when TextPad exits normally those files are deleted automatically - your event "a forced reboot crashed" could still fit this, as we can't know when (programs still have time to close gracefully) and how (bluescreen? frozen?) it crashed. However, TextPad must at least have asked if you want to save files with a dialog, which blocks exiting TextPad (again this can be tested by just killing TextPad in such a situation to then check if the files are still there).
I have no idea if new documents are automatically saved, too, but they sure cannot have a backup when not even a file of it exists. Why didn't you save a new file right away?