@jalefkowit

Notepad.exe & Windows 11 are already bad enough.

I just checked this again to write no nonsense:

When you open a text file from an USB stick with notepad.exe you can nonetheless "disconnect" the stick. Win 11 (not 10!) ignores that you are editing a file from it - on one hand.

But on the other hand, when you return to the file still open in notepad.exe it tells you it can't find the path and presents you with an *empty* editor.

Except you changed the text before, then it's kept.