Re: [Winmerge-support] Support Forum Not Working And WinMerge Shows Entire File Has Changed

[Jesse D. <je...@al...>]

I just needed to tell it to ignore line ending differences. I thought
I told it to save that as the permanent setting the last time it asked
me if I wanted to ignore line differences...

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jesse Dickey <je...@al...> wrote:
> Even IE is not helping me now. I still was not considered logged in
> yet, so I logged in again, and now IE won't load the forum page
> anymore either.
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jesse Dickey <je...@al...> wrote:
>> Any help will be appreciated, and I appreciate the work that has gone
>> into this program and the website especially since it is open source
>> and probably mostly run by unpaid volunteers.
>>
>> That being said, I have had a very poor experience recently trying to
>> use WinMerge and trying to get help with my problem.
>>
>> I am trying to compare 2 files in WinMerge and it is showing that they
>> are completely different even though they are very similar. I have
>> experienced this before but never consistently.
>>
>> To get this problem resolved I went to the WinMerge website looking
>> for a way to get support. On the support page it said the fasted way
>> to get help was using the Open Discussion forum. So I went there and
>> tried to reply to a post where someone else had this same problem.
>> After that it required me to login, so I clicked to the Google icon to
>> login using my Google account. I was able to login this way, but it
>> left me completely disoriented, as in not on the forum anymore with no
>> links back to where I was. So I had to find the WinMerge site again
>> and the link to the discussion forum. I clicked the link to the
>> discussion forum and then got this message in chrome:
>> "The webpage at
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/winmerge/viewforum.php?f=4 has
>> resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or
>> allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is
>> possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your
>> computer."
>>
>> I do have cookies enabled and other websites don't generally give me
>> cookie problems so it probably is not a problem on my end. I tried the
>> same process in Firefox with similar results. I just now tried it in
>> IE 8 and the page actually does load with that browser.
>>
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