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If we have enabled option: Tools->Options...->Misc->Messages->"Some comparison options have changed" message and then toggle option: Tools->Options...->Text Comparison->Ignore white spaces in lines->All then we indeed see the prompt "Some comparison options have changed. Would you lik...

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I'm not sure that it's file timestamp. I suspect that it's MS Windows API mesasge WS_FILE_SYSTEM_CHANGED (or something like this) which is sent to all running Win32+ applications when something is written to disk (at least, to local disk), regardless of directory entry which holds timestamps.

Then you are lucky, because you get the correct picture at least after you re-compare. In my corporate network, even after recomparing several times, I sometimes still see the old picture, so I have to relaunch the viewing S/W (ExamDiff Pro in our case). This is probably because of some over-caching...

Could it be that at least one of the compared files (or both) is/are located on network drives?

OK, thanks for considering addition of 3 files comparison. But maybe it would be worth to mention that adding 3 files comparison will only align EDP with some competitors (from the point of view of this specific feature). However, N files comparison will put EDP in front of them. I did not perform m...

Hello. If I understand correctly, the original post was about just comparing three files, probably without any relation to a merge operation. If we look on it this way, then: - Maybe this has been already implemented? Taking into account that 3-way merge already exists, this seems to be pretty close...

And in addition, this forum is pre-moderated. So even in case of security breach into a regular user account, the potentially malicious post won't be published (and such dilution is actually happening).

Hello. I would like to be able to toggle option "Ignore Linebreak styles" via customized toolbar. In my work I often have to compare files that came from Unix and Windows, and one of the main differences is line feed format. Currently I have to go to Options menu, then to "Text Compar...

In case of working with sensitive data, users may concern about malicious restoring those temporary files after deletion. In such specific cases users may want to replace "deletion of temporary files on exit" by "wiping temporary files on exit", which means that the deletion will...

psguru wrote:Judging by the directory name (C:\Program Files), were you installing a 64-bit build? Did you only have a 32-bit build installed before? If so, it explains the installer behavior.

No, I was installing 32-bits installer in 32-bits Windows over 32-bits old version.

Hello. Today I installed EDP Pro v6 over v4.5.2.2. My v4.5.2.2 was installed in D:\Program Files\... I downloaded v6 and launched the installer without uninstalling v4.5.2.2. I expected the installer of v6 to prompt me the old directory when I tried to install v6, but instead it suggested me to inst...

Maybe the files are in Unicode? How do you know that these files actually don't have spaces?

MSpagni wrote:Me too, I would like it to be implemented in EDP.
Anyway, in the meantime I keep using

FC /B <filename1> <filename2>

I use this and other methods of comparing. But "modern" people want something like EDP.