Re: [Winmerge-support] Winmerge not working right on files, but ok on folders

[Dee E. <de...@ea...>]

On 27/10/2009 20:46, Bonneville, Douglas wrote:
> Out of the blue, after years of using WinMerge inside of Dreamweaver, it
> decided to act up. It takes nearly 30 seconds to compare any two files,
> either from within Dreamweaver, or if I compare directly from a file
> folder in Explorer. If I compare folders, it comes up in a snap, as
> usual. I'm using the latest release from a clean install, and it still
> does it. I was using 2.8 when it started happening.
>
> I have not installed or uninstalled anything manually in a very long
> time, so nothing changed as a result of my actions.
>
> However, over the weekend, our network issued SVP 3 for XP Pro. I got
> that installed automatically. That is the only thing different.
>
> Any clues as to how to get this fixed? It's essentially impossible to
> use now, with a 30 second wait to just see 2 text files that used to
> take about 1-2 seconds.

Does the file compare from a folder compare still take ages?
How about opening two files from inside WinMerge itself?

Sorry to say that I'm using SP3 on all my XP machines without issue.

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