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In notepad when I have a large file open, when I press save EVERY line feed is deleted and all compressed! Any suggestions?

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That doesn't sound likely. What kind of file is it? Where did this file come from? – Joel Spolsky♦ Dec 9 '10 at 4:19
Downloaded from a filezilla FTP server. – Bubby4j Dec 9 '10 at 14:15
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Choose File, Save As and note the encoding.

Use a Hex Dump tool to check the line endings - notepad expects CR LF but files from non-Windows sources, or files downloaded with incorrect FTP settings might have just CR or just LF.

Open the file in Wordpad instead.

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Noooo! Wordpad is EVIL! It pretends to know vanilla ascii but prefers the RTF and DOC formats. Well, I suppose you could use Wordpad if you promise never to put the resultant file on the web. A better solution would involve obtaining one of the wonderful Windows based Notepad replacements (Notepad++,Notepad2, etc...) (Trying to be nice, I'm not a Windows user.) – lornix Sep 6 '11 at 5:12
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I figured it out, I had used a registry hack to enable the status bar AND word wrap at the same time, which bugged it. Disabling the hack fixed it.

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