If notepad wasn'tIn case if Notepad++ was not able to create the backup file and had crashed. At that point, it triedtries to recovercreate the *.dump files as dump whichthat could be found at the following placepath:
%AppData%\Local\Temp\N++RECOV
C:\Users\<windowsusernamehere>\AppData\Local\Temp\N++RECOV\