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Give a try. You can download EDP for evaluation and see if it works for you.

The latest build of 3.4 Beta contains new options: to save a file directly, and to provide more ways to save backups. See them under Options | File Editing.

OK, I'll need some time to think this through. Thanks for your input...

I thought of the idea of creating the temp/backup file first, as an exact copy of the original file, then overwriting the original file (using or not the temp/backup file depending if all the file can be kept in memory or not), and finally either deleting the temp file or renaming it as a true back...

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. Now, we do restore security attribu...

Regarding memory consumption: if you use full (binary) file comparison (see Options | Dir Comparison), and you have very large files in your directories, at some point the program may exhaust virtual memory on your machine. The solution is not to use full file comparison -- instead use timestamps, s...

No, this will be to much for ExamDiff (and ExamDiff Pro). You can compare large directories (only in the Pro version) but if a single file is 5GB, both versions will choke (exhaust memory).

Might this be a problem of the changed license? (I recently left my previous company which had given me a license, but now I have my own license) No, this is not possible. I'm not sure why it happened but I'm glad it works for you now. Yes, I know I can switch between "autodetect", "...

When I switch Use View Filter to "all" in the directory comparison and then do a "Compare Matched", the "Use View Filter" is set to "all" for the file as well. ==> for me, it looks like the "Use View Filter" setting for the file comparison follows t...

I wish there were two separate settings - one for folders, one for files (or three: one more for binary file comparison). Actually, there are already two separate view filters: one for file comparison and another -- for directory comparison. I'm not sure what the problem is. Also, in the startup di...

Yes, it's a bug. The fix will appear in the next 3.4 Beta build.

Well, it's unlikely that a language would use Unicode characters in its syntax. Same goes for language file extensions.

To support paths containing Unicode characters.

Good point. Will move in the next build of 3.4 Beta.

The latest build of 3.4 Beta has new option "Process reparse points for subdirectories" under Options | Misc.