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Delete right side fails because file is open in WinMerge

Open TomArrow opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

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".

TomArrow avatar Oct 05 '24 08:10 TomArrow