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Notepad History / TabState Location

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In recent versions of Windows 11, notepad added the ability to create tabs and save the history when closed. In order to achieve this it uses a concept called TabState stored insid…

Notepad History / TabState Location

In recent versions of Windows 11, notepad added the ability to create tabs and save the history when closed. In order to achieve this it uses a concept called TabState stored inside of .bin files inside of the notepad package folder.

Location

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\TabState

Contains files with a the name <Random-GUID>.bin.

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Reference

https://twitter.com/nas_bench/status/1725658060104913019