yuenm18
Compare with previous no longer works with pptx
Hi and thank you for building and maintaining this plugin. It is very useful <3
I have been using the "Compare With Previous" to see what changes in xml files when I make changes to a PowerPoint presentation. This stopped working completely in recent times. Meaning that I no longer see diffs in the file (no yellow asterisk, etc.). Perhaps it has something to do with #28
System details:
OS X version: Big Sur 11.6.6
VS Code version: 1.69.2
extension version: v1.2.2
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/193407/182645271-ae88d00b-4f45-40b9-9bf3-c097603c0edf.mov
Sorry for the low-res video, I had to compress it.
Let me know if I can provide any other info to help debug. And thanks again.
Hi @pastafari ,
I tried to reproduce with a pptx file, but I see the Compare with Previous functionality and asterisks on the changed files. Are you seeing this with Word or Excel? Also, maybe you pressed ctrl + s, so I didn't see it in the video, but I didn't see you save the file (the versions are only compared on save).
It may have no effect but re-installing the extension and restarting VS Code might help.
Hi @mikeebowen - thanks for the prompt reply.
For clarity, I did Save the PPTX file after editing it in PowerPoint, that did not trigger a refresh in VSCode.
I tried re-installing VS Code and the extension, that did not work either.
Rolling back to an older version of the extension v1.2.0 made it work (partially).
- the first change made via PowerPoint would reflect in VSCode
- but subsequent changes were not being picked up.
Ideally, I'd love to see the diff being updated every time I hit Save on PowerPoint.
I suspect there's something going on with the FileSystem being cached, and onSave signals from the external program not leading to a refresh in the plugin.
fwiw, are you also on OSX?
I'm not sure how it works on OSX, but with Windows, you need to save the file in an untracked location, e.g. if you use OneDrive, it must be saved in a folder not synced to OneDrive. I have an untracked folder especially for this purpose. I will try to find a Mac and see if I can reproduce the issue there.
@pastafari, I had such issue. Unfortunattely, I don't remember what exactly helped me, but I think the cause of the issue was the long file path. I fixed this by moving my file, eg. from c:\folder\sub-folder\sub-folder\test.pptx to c:\folder\test.pptx.
