@Murray-Sobol

using unc paths for “find in files” will (or at least should) work under following conditions:

your user has access to this unc path without needing to enter any credentials.
please crosscheck this and paste your desired unc path (like \\1.2.3.4\Main folder\Sub folders) in explorer and make sure it opens without any user/password requests

your notepad++ must not be running in [administrator] mode or in any state where you are not able to drag and drop any file into notepad++, as it will not use or provide the active network credentials of your current user account to the file server

@Meta-Chuh Thanks a lot it make lot of senses this way I will be able to keep my precious setting especially the on’es for the automatic back-up !

@V-S-Rawat

if you have already moved all plugin files to the correct folder, you can keep it.

@Александр-Хренников

test test received ;-)

Hello @jkunkee! Please excuse my absense, I’m not very often on the PC during the holidays.Thank you for taking the time to respond and provide this very nice technical summary. In fact, I’d like to link to your post from within the article if you don’t mind. It’s really a great overview =) BTW, in the article I strongly identify myself as a Windows user and have been for many years. What I can’t stand is the Windows 10 GUI because I can’t really tell buttons from text labels.

If I’m interpreting your post correctly, you advocate for Notepad++ taking the ARM64 route directly. I agree with you fully! In fact, I only did an ARM32 build, because I was eager to use it on the RPi =) I understand that the relevance of ARM32 builds is otherwise quite limited and Windows 10 is ARM64 only. Yes, Notepad++ should provide ARM64 builds exclusively.

You are doing a great job encouraging projects to transition to ARM! I really enjoy the architecture and it should become widespread. While Microsoft is doing an awesome work with porting the OS and the tools, the net is still full of desinformatin such as “Windows is x86/x64 only” so a transition is likely going to take a lot of time =/. Also, providing ARM builds is sadly a question of resources. For instance, I was able to do about 1h of work in the evenings and also needed a RPi. To test the builds on Windows 10 instead of Wine I’m also going to need a license etc.

Thank you and have great holidays!