WinMerge / Bugs / #2107 Winmerge never deletes temp files when editing UTF-8 files

#2107 Winmerge never deletes temp files when editing UTF-8 files

Milestone: Trunk

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 6

Updated: 2018-03-13

Created: 2012-04-14

Creator: Dan Weiss

Private: No

Whenever Winmerge compares two files, normally it creates two temporary files, then immediately deletes them.
But if the file is UTF-8 encoded and contains Unicode characters, the temporary files are never deleted.
I work with large text files (about 10MB), and ended up with multiple GB of temp files sitting in the temp folder.

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Dan Weiss - 2012-04-14

summary: Winmerge never deletes temp files if they are UTF-8 encoded --> Winmerge never deletes temp files when editing UTF-8 files

priority: 5 --> 6
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Juergen Schulze - 2018-02-22

Same problem over here.

I use large UTF-8 textfiles from different OCR software engines to compare/find erros.

And because I have to reopen the files often to fine tune the OCR processes my temp folder runs into 5+ GB of size after just after three days of work.

Won't anyone take care of this. Please

Besides: I LOVE WINMERGE.

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Takashi Sawanaka - 2018-03-13

status: open --> closed-fixed

Group: --> Trunk
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Takashi Sawanaka - 2018-03-13

This bug has been fixed in 2.15.2

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