How to recover unsaved notepads?

Question

Hi. So basically I have a notepad filled with all my passwords (and some of my previous teachers' phone numbers) in a notepad.

The problem is today I accidentally clicked do not save on closing. I still have about half the passwords, but not the phone numbers, and am trying to recover it.

Does anyone know a solution to this? If so please share. Thank you! I have tried everything in my power to recover it, but we are not trying to recover the whole notepad, only half of it.

Answer 1

The new Notepad app saves the unsaved documents to a temp folder (%appdata%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState) in your user profile, however, if you chose the option not to save the document when closing Notepad, that temp file is permanently deleted and it cannot be recovered.