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Hangs when copying files in Windows 2008 R2

gaksplat — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:04:40 GMT

Beyond Compare 2 & 3 have been wonderful to work with and saved us a lot of time when publishing our software to various LIVE web servers from our development and/or staging environment.

Recently we upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 (from Windows Server 2008). It seems odd, but when copy files over the network using a network share from the Windows Server 2008 R2 box to another Windows Server 2008 R2 box, Beyond Compare takes 20-30 seconds PER FILE after it copies the file before continuing. During this time, it has the file locked so the web server gets an error if it tries to access it (especially not good for DLL files).

When we copy form the same Windows Server 2008 R2 server to an older Windows Server 2008 (NOT R2) over a similar network share, it still performs fine - just as it always has previously.

Is there some setting in Beyond Compare or Windows that we can disable to prevent this? has anyone else run into the same issue?

Thanks,
Gerrit Kruidhof

BC 3.2 beta observations

dickdunbar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:07:56 GMT

Thanks for detecting symbolic links on unix ftp connections;
it is extraordinarily useful in my work.

The script I wrote for "Open With" to launch cygwin bash
has started to fail. The problem is that the last directory
in the path now has a blank separating it from the full path.

"Windows cannot find 'C:\views\ vobs'."

Running on Windows 7 produces lots (and lots) of "program not responding"
while running BC3. I'm puzzled (but not surprised) by this behaviour,
because BC3 is very well behaved on WinXP.

I suspect I'll have to run something like Sysinternals "procmon" to track this down.

12204 How is one sopposed to know when/if Find Filename has matched?

chrisjj — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:39:01 GMT

I can see no way to discover, short of manually comparing the "Searching for:" input with the filename under the selector.

Continuous contribution to shared sessions from multiple computers

joshcomley — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:13:40 GMT

I work in a team of developers.

I'd like to be able to share sessions between us. I know this is possible using the shared settings folder option, but the work flow doesn't seem quite what I would have expected.

Suppose I make a useful comparison project I'd like to share between the developers, and call it "Comparison 1". I would go through the export options and export "Comparison 1" to the "BCSessions.bcpkg" file in the shared folder.

Now suppose the developer next to me has come up with another really useful comparison project that she would like to add to the existing share called "Comparison 2". If they run through the export, they will overwrite the old "BCSessions.bcpkg" and "Comparison 1" will be lost, because it was not natively on their computer, only through the share. The only comparison project in the shared file will now be "Comparison 2".

How can we create a share that a team of developers can easily continue to contribute to?

Thanks,
Josh

Where is the setting hiding?

ebakkest — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:18:30 GMT

I know I've used this setting before, but now I can't for the life of me find it.

I would like to have BC do "block select" when I move between differences such that if there are several consecutive lines with differences, they are all selected and ready to "copy left" or "copy right".

if X on rhs != X on lhs, copy X to 3rd location?

kashin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:53:11 GMT

Does anyone have a script that will compare lhs to rhs, and copy all differences to a 3rd location?
This should be simple and perhaps it is. I'm being lazy by asking. Now I will research it myself.

Owner & Group preservation

JohnnyG — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:49:05 GMT

I did a search and found some really old topics on this, but nothing recent. What I want to know is if there is a way in the Linux version of BC to maintain the owner and group on files and directories when mirroring filesystems. I am migrating directories from an old NAS to a new one, and I need that information to be retained. Any assistance would be appreciated.

At this point, when copying or mirroring a directory after finding all the differences, the files are copied over, but the owner and group is assigned as whatever user I am logged in as (usually root). This is odd since if I open two different directories on two different NAS units, and simply copy the files in the Unix GUI, the owner, group, and permissions are all retained.

New Foder Synch Questions

Hernandito — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:32:45 GMT

Sorry, I accidentally posted this in BC v.2. Script Forum. I am using BC3.
================================================== ====

Hello,

My question is probably very simple. I am trying to create a folder comparison script, and following the guide on the web site and the help file, I have come up with the following:

Code:

# Turn logging on



log normal "C:\Synclog.txt"



# Load the default session and exclude all but certain file types



load 



filter "._.*;Thumbs.db"



# Load the base folders



load "W:\Original" "F:\Backup"



# Copy different files left to right, delete orphans on right



sync mirror:left->right

I am excluding the thumbnail files. However, the files that would be on the "left" folder, I do NOT want to delete orphan files on the "right". In other words, if someone deletes a file from Original folder, I do NOT want the file deleted from the Backup folder.

How can I omit the deleting of orphan files?

Another question, within the same script, can I add another folder synch session? Would it look like this?

Code:

# Turn logging on



log normal "C:\Synclog.txt"



# Load the default session and exclude all but certain file types

load 

filter "._.*;Thumbs.db"

# Load the base folders

load "W:\Ipod Backup" "f:\Ipod Backup"

# Copy different files left to right, delete orphans on right

sync mirror:left->right



 

# Load the base folders



load "W:\Original2" "F:\Backup2"



# Copy different files left to right, delete orphans on right



sync mirror:left->right



 

# Load the base folders



load "W:\Original3" "F:\Backup3"



# Copy different files left to right, delete orphans on right



sync mirror:left->right

Many thanks for the help and advice.

Hernandito

too many arguments error

bigsaff — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:32:09 GMT

Good morning.
This is probably a simple fix. So I won't waste any extra time with explanations. I receive the following error when trying to run a backup script through BC:

7/26/2010 10:31:52 AM >> load \\[servername]\[folder to backup]\l:\Backup_daily1\Trad_Promo
7/26/2010 10:31:52 AM Fatal Scripting Error: Too many arguments
7/26/2010 10:31:53 AM Script completed in 1.53 seconds

any ideas??
Thanks,
Bigsaff

Comparison of Enormous Log Files

bapriebe — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:08:51 GMT

From time to time, BC3 is used here to compare trace log files of up to 1.5GB in size. BC3 apparently runs out of address space for the largest of these.

Are there any plans for a 64-bit-native version?

Problem with doing CRC/Binary compare on UNC folder

Dion — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:03:52 GMT

I am comparing two server contents using UNC (\\servername\share) format.

If I do a simple date/time comparison, it works fine (And reports in sync).

If I do a CRC or binary compare, I get a whole heap of "cannot open file" errors on one server. That is despite that server and folder and file being accessible in windows.

Even using mapped drive letters does not fix the issue.

I am using latest stable version of BC.

Edit: I have checked the previous version and it has the same issue.

It appears to be limited to 1 particular server that is causing the problem, although I do not understand why, as the user I am logged in as on the Windows machine has full privledges on the server.

Xdiff / Plastic SCM: Is this a great feature ? How close is BC ? (Video)

bc_for_life — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:54:17 GMT

Plastic SCM / Move support in xdiff (Video)

This URL

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2...t-in-diff.html

makes this claim/statement:

Move support in xdiff:
One of the big things we just released in 3.0 is the new Xdiff.
We call it cross-diff because it can locate code that has been moved, and we used to draw it on paper with crossing-lines.
It is able to identify the code as "moved" even when it has been modified. And you can click on the "subdiff" to actually run an independent diff on the moved fragment as you can see below.

Here is a video:

==> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpRGtnQQRPs

How does this stack up to the fantastic Beyond Compare ?

Process priority under Vista

jaxoo — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:48:15 GMT

Hi,

When ever I start a synchronisation from my internal SATA to eSATA drive, the PC becomes extremely slow until BC ends its work. Using the copy function inside windows explorer for same huge folders is lightning fast and smooth.

This is the same with stable and last beta versions. Sad to see as it really makes the program useless for me

Any way to solve it?

Many thanks

PS: CPU is a Q6600 with 2Gb RAM

Compare file list to folder list.

goodeye — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:18:42 GMT

Hi,
I'm trying to compare a list of xml files in one folder to corresponding subfolders in another folder.
e.g., left side has
abc.xml
def.xml
ghi.xml

right side has folders:
abc_files
def_files
ghi_files

Is there a way to do this with the alignment override? I tried *.xml against *_files

Thanks,
Bob

Eclipse's differ viewer with SubVersion

menardr — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:15:49 GMT

I'm using Eclipse 3.4.1/BC3 3.1.11 with SubVersion, in Windows.

From the SVN Synchronize perspective I right mouse click on a modified file then select 'Open In External Compare Editor' and get BC3 up but nothing on either side.

I have seem a simular result when I was missing double quote(s) but I've trying every combination of quote usage I could think of but nothing.

Using the installation instructions outlined in http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs, for Subversion:

Created the bat file, exactly as shown...
Modified the config file, exactly as shown...

Ideas?
TIA
Rick