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Delete right side fails because file is open in WinMerge #2466

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TomArrow opened this issue Oct 5, 2024 · 1 comment
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Delete right side fails because file is open in WinMerge #2466

TomArrow opened this issue Oct 5, 2024 · 1 comment

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TomArrow commented Oct 5, 2024

Not sure its reproducible but here's what I did:

Windows 10 Pro, Left side is a local drive, right side is a network share on another Windows PC.

  • Compare two big folders (maybe 500 GB) that should be identical.
  • Unchecked View->Show Identical Items. Disabled tree view.
  • Marked all files that differed, hit Delete->Right side. All good.
  • Then went copy->left to right on all to update the right side.
  • Then, with all these files still marked, I went "Refresh selected".
  • Now I ended up with one file that's still different (other PC has RAM issues or something, hence bits get kaputted),
  • So I wanted to repeat the process and hit Delete->right Side, but now I no longer could. Deleting fails with the Windows error "The action can't be completed because the file is open in WinMerge".
@sdottaka sdottaka added this to the v2.16.43 milestone Oct 9, 2024
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So far we have not been able to reproduce this problem.
This is probably due to some kind of error, such as a memory error or disk error, but it is difficult to reproduce.

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