Even the best software have troubles sometimes. Today i will show you how to survive after a crash of E-texteditor (i survived twice so, you can do too 
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For various reasons, E-text can crash or just hang when you want to save (especially when you work remotely, via FTP) and can ruin the work of a whole day (or even more) because when saves, the editor will first empty/remove current file, then will write the new one. And if the editor crash just after file is removed, you are screwed. Or, at least, you think so.
Whan you need to do:
Grab a small and fast editor. My pick is Scite. Is small and is DAMN fast with huge files.
Hit your WIN+R on your keyboard and write this: %appdata%\e\temp. Then dragg all files in Scite. Here you can find all recently edited files (may be many files, on my pc there is around 30 or so). Now, all you need to do is to find the file you was saving when the editor crashed. I know, it may be hard, but i can bet is not harder than rewritting your whole file 
Bonus tip:
Older version of E-texteditor was somehow unstable in various circumstances. And because i use E since 1.0 or so, i had to develop a good habit: backup my settings. For doing that i use Sync Toy 2. Every night i close my editor and every morning synctoy will copy my settings on another partition, just in case. It’s VERY important to close the editor before backup, because most settings (like ftp accounts) are saved when editor closes. So, unless you want your backup to be useless, please, close your editor 
Bonus tip 2:
From time to time, visit e-texteditor forums. Most new versions don’t hit the front page if they are not well tested. Live example: on homepage, the last version is 1.0.30 and on forums is 1.0.31 (which is way more stable). So.. Keep an eye there!
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Very helpful tutorial because we sometimes can lost very much data. I wouldn’t know if you wrote about bundles and other nice things from e-text, but is time to write more tricks. Maybe you’ll make a category : “Tips & Tricks”. Good luck and more posts.
Latest news : To make you work easy you can sort files from %appdata%\e\temp by Date (in Vista you must open “More” menu to select “Date” ) so most recently file will work corectly
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I wish you more happy crashes with e-text editor. Just kidding. The guys who made etext should repair that bug really really soon.
hmmm… e-texteditor ? wtf….. notepad2 ftw ! http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
using it since like 2-3 years… without so much as a crash or data loss….
Woho, guys, wait! Don’t think that e-text is crash often! In fact, didn’t crash for a while now. But i wanted to offer a way from recovering from a crash.
If Notepad++ will crash during a save, your files will be filled with NULL. So, is better my way, isn’t it?
Notepad2 doesn’t have snippets & bundles. After one year of using these, it’s impossible for me to develop anything without them