Notepad++ not working after removing wine that was installed for a different application

I had notepad++ for a while now, installed directly from Ubuntu software center. AFAI remember I didn't have to specifically install wine.

Yesterday I wanted to install a different *.exe and had to install wine (otherwise it wouldn't run). It wreaked havoc on my system, and I found online that wine might be the issue (which it was). I uninstalled with sudo apt-get --purge remove wine, and now I can't open notepad++ (not surprised). But I had open files there that are not saved (notepad++ has some sort of cache where it stores all the non saved files). Is there a possibility to reinstall wine and reconnect it back with the Notepad++ installation?

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