File size column not showing sizes > 1kB

[GreenMoose]

[Build 444, Vista x64]
Today I noticed all file sizes > 1kB don't seem to appear in the Size column.
I can't remember if it has worked before and I just didn't notice it.
Known issue?

[Michael Bulgrien]

File sizes are working for me. What type of folders are you comparing?

[GreenMoose]

File sizes are working for me. What type of folders are you comparing?

It doesn't seem to matter which folders I compare, attached is a screenshot of Windows\System32 <=> Windows\SysWOW64.

[Pete]

If you haven't already tried it, I would increase the width of the Size column to see if that fixes the problem. Of course if that's the problem then there should probably be ellipses (...).

[GreenMoose]

If you haven't already tried it, I would increase the width of the Size column to see if that fixes the problem. Of course if that's the problem then there should probably be ellipses (...).

Nops, the size of the the column doesn't matter unfortunately.

[Michael Bulgrien]

What is that "Unable to load files" message in your log messages? If Cirrus can't read the files, for whatever reason, that could explain its inability to report certain file attributes.

[GreenMoose]

What is that "Unable to load files" message in your log messages? If Cirrus can't read the files, for whatever reason, that could explain its inability to report certain file attributes.

That was just some system file (something like 'Unable to load file Yada.dat').
During normal folder compare sessions I don't see any errors at all.

[Michael Bulgrien]

On my system, if the column is not wide enough to show the file size, then an ellipsis (…) is displayed. Your screenshot doesn't even have that. Weird.

[Chris]

This might be a Windows Vista specific behavior because the folders in the screen shot are system folders.

Does it help if you right click on the Cirrus shortcut and start it using "Run As Administrator"?

[GreenMoose]

This might be a Windows Vista specific behavior because the folders in the screen shot are system folders.

Does it help if you right click on the Cirrus shortcut and start it using "Run As Administrator"?

It doesn't seem to matter which folders I compare.
Nope it doesn't help using "Run As Administrator" on the cirrus shortcut and then choosing any folder compare session I have saved.

[Aaron]

Backup and delete settings

If you backup and delete your current settings, does the problem continue to be present with the default settings?

To delete, go to AppData/Scooter Software/Beyond Compare 3/xmlfiles
or, if you are in single directory mode, the xml files are in the install directory. Cut them out and place them in another location.

[GreenMoose]

Using default settings didn't help. Neither did installing the new build from yesterday.
Note that it show the file sizes for size < 1kB.
Maybe some bug you have when converting the "1234" to e.g. "1.2kB" in Vista?

*Edit: I have customized Swedish locale, using "." as a decimal rather than the Swedish standard ",". Maybe it has something to do with localization of numerics? (If you do any).

[Tim]

I have customized Swedish locale, using "." as a decimal rather than the Swedish standard ",". Maybe it has something to do with localization of numerics?

That's it! We're able to repeat the problem here and should be able to fix it.