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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 be preceded by ...

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 ...

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.

Colleague just asked me to show difference in binary files (using simple byte-to-byte view), and appeared that I still can't do it in ExamDiff Pro v4.5.
I voted for it in wish list, but this fact did not help my colleague.
Is it implemented in v5 (I don't have it yet)? Or is it going to be ...

I'm not sure what you are suggesting. ExamDiff Pro reads its options from the Registry by default, and from either a session (via command line), session file (via command line), or command line arguments. All of these methods already exist.

By the way, can we control "View -> Use Ignores Option ...

Is it possible to override the GUI setting with a command line option?
No, it's not.
When we launch ExamDiff Pro, it takes options from somewhere (e.g., from configuration file, from registry, from session configuration, etc.).
I suggest to add command line to these places, from which the ...

MSpagni wrote:...So, what can I do to compare huge binary files?
I think I'll do a porting to windows of my old DOS "COMP" clone...

You should do this: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1208#p3142 (see the last post in that thread).

Or just use "fc /b File1 File2".

pstein wrote:I want to compare occasionally two very big (binary) files or two directories which contain very big (binary) files.
Very big means > 300 MB
...
Currently the comparisons are very very long running....

By the way, maybe this topic will also help you to decrease comparison time.

...ignore the first N lines of the file...
For this you should pass your files through a command line Unix-like command:
tail +3 YourFile.txt will output your file from line 3 (skipping first two lines). If you manage to organize the command above as a filter (or write such filter in, say, Perl ...

...I suppose we could, instead of the "Time difference to ignore" option, use a different setting, or simply hardcode it to 2 seconds (which appears to be a safe number) but this a rarely an issue. I'd like to return your attention to the following fragment again: ...
File A.txt on FAT32: 36.262 KB ...

But the quoted fragment may point to some problem. ...since it appears that there is no "official" way to detect if the copy went ok... This is also questionable. You don't need to know if copy finished ok. You only need to know when to update panels (it may happen several times even before COPY ...

I did not try to reproduce the problem, but the following fragment is a bit suspicious:
...
File A.txt on FAT32: 36.262 KB 02/17/2010 19:46:36 Changed
File A.txt on NTFS: 36.256 KB 02/17/2010 21:59:25 Changed

Copying file A.txt via EDP from NTFS to FAT32.
Copy ok, but EDP says they are still ...