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Dir comparison: Sorting by # diffs doesn't work

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:44 am
by Ulf Thorsen
Hi!

I just upgraded to the latest version(*) and now I can't manage to sort a directory comparison by #diffs. All other columns can be sorted, but not this one (which, unfortunately, is the one I use the most). Any ideas why this happens?

And while I'm at it, I also wonder why #diffs is listed in both panes, as it belongs to the pair, not to one specific directory. Perhaps this is the reason why it can't be sorted?

Regards,
Ulf Thorsen

(*) The previous version was about 10 years old, so I can't tell when it stopped working.

Re: Dir comparison: Sorting by # diffs doesn't work

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:07 am
by psguru
Yes, it appears to be a bug if parallel directory comparison is used (see Options | Directory Compare | Other | Use parallel full comparison). The fix will appear in the next build of 7.0.

Re: Dir comparison: Sorting by # diffs doesn't work

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:25 am
by Ulf Thorsen
Thanks!

Disabling "Use parallel full comparison" did the trick for me, and now it works as it used to. I mainly use ExamDiff to compare reasonably sized directories, so I don't need the parallel full comparison anyway.

Great tool, btw!

Regards,
Ulf Thorsen