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OK, I'll need some time to think this through. Thanks for your input... Ok ... I would just like to add to this that one of my particular concerns in this matter are links. And especially hard links. For those who don't know what are hard links (they are not very well known in the Windows world), t...

In this scenario, however, if save fails, the original file restored from the temp file will not get back its security attributes [...] Maybe, but I think that it is certainly less complicated to have to manually reset attributes after a failure than to have to recreate the whole file from scratch ...

This would require three operations with the complete file: 1. read the original file, 2. write the original file as backup, 3. write the changed file. Renaming the original file and writing the changed file under the name of the original file only requires one operation with the complete file. Of ...

The result is the same. (backup files are probably just deleted after saving using this option) True. The actual culprit is not backup files but the fact that when a file is saved, it is first written to a temp file, then the temp file replaced the original file. That is more or less what I was say...

MudGuard wrote:Have you tried to turn off the creation of backups?

View - Options - File Editing, remove check from "Create backups (*.bak) when saving files"

Yes.

The result is the same.
(backup files are probably just deleted after saving using this option)

Gingko

Hello, I would like to submit a problem that may concern a limited number of users, but can make ExamDiff Pro almost unusable for those who want to use it on the following way: I very commonly edit, from my Windows XP machine, files that are actually located on a Linux remote machine, using network ...