This crash existed for years and appears randomly, but especially with many opened files/tabs.
I have one yesterday with about 30 tabs opened, which also erased the settings files as usual. The rule is, the least amount of opened files, the least chance the program crashes. Not very helpful I know, but I (and the author I presume) have not been able to track down this nasty problem (unable to replicate). -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,74411,74466> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com
