453 Hex Viewer barring writes

[chrisjj]

HV works fine on e.g. 80Kb files but on e.g. 7Mb files it has a problem - it seems to bar other programs from writing to the file.

Is a fix planned?

[Michael Bulgrien]

I can confirm this issue.

When very large files are in a BC3 Hex compare, Ultra-Edit returns the following error dialog:

Cannot Save File
File/Device may be ReadOnly, or open for write by another application!
Use 'Save As' to save as a different name.

[Tim]

By default, Hex Compare has a 2MB threshhold for loading files into memory and freeing the lock on the file. To change it, go to the Home view, select Edit session defaults > Hex Compare and change the "Keep an in-memory copy of files smaller than" setting.