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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0000162 | VisualDiffer | Files differ | public | 2013-04-07 20:15 | 2013-09-12 17:05 |
Reporter | tkmantis | Assigned To | admin | ||
Priority | high | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
Platform | Macintosh | OS | OS X | OS Version | 10.6.8 |
Product Version | 1.5.1 | ||||
Fixed in Version | 1.5.6 | ||||
Summary | 0000162: When comparing files, need check resource fork also | ||||
Description | When comparing files, the app needs to consider the resource fork as well as the data fork. When comparing files by size, need to consider the size of the resource fork and the size of the data fork, and if either is different, file is different. When comparing content, need to do the byte-by-byte binary comparison on both data and resource forks. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | Perform test comparison where you set up two trees that contain files that are alike in data fork, but different in resource fork. | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I admit the resource fork is a totally unexplored land on VisualDiffer. May you point me on some example so I can create a test case? |
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Get this free app and you can alter bytes of data and resource forks and even create resource forks. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/17562/hexedit |
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HexHedit hosted at sourceforge is a very old application, I've found only the source code but it doesn't compile on current XCode version |
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You can download the binary .dmg for hexedit from the "Download Now" link on that MacUpdate page I linked above. |
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What is the status on this? Is this going to be fixed? |
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I've written the code but the implementation (it's a complicated way to test if an 'object' is a resource fork) is very very slow because every file must be checked, so I've decided to not include, at this time, in production code. |
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Perhaps the resource fork comparison should be an option with a check box, as in [ ] Compare Resource Forks (slow) |
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Any more progress on this one? |
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I've dedicated few days to this bug but the implementation is really slow and VD crashes too much, so I moved this bug to the low priority queue (very low) |
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Hi, great news. The resource fork feature has landed on the alpha version (it is a checkbox present in session preference) I don't work with resforks so I need a deeper test, do you want to test the alpha version? I can send to you it Thanks for your support |
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Thank you. Yes, please do send it to me for test. |
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Ok, here the zipped version http://cl.ly/0L3M0S1r1r3P 1. Unzip where you want but don't overwrite the MAS version 2. This version uses a new .vdiff file format, existing sessions will be upgraded 3. If you decide to upgrade existing sessions they never will work with MAS version so please don't use this alpha version to save sessions 4. Resource fork check is disabled by default, you must change it from the session preference under Comparison tab For every problem you encounter I'm here Thanks for your patience and support |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2013-04-07 20:15 | tkmantis | New Issue | |
2013-04-07 20:15 | tkmantis | Status | new => assigned |
2013-04-07 20:15 | tkmantis | Assigned To | => admin |
2013-04-08 09:01 | admin | Note Added: 0000252 | |
2013-04-08 09:01 | admin | Status | assigned => confirmed |
2013-04-08 15:25 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000255 | |
2013-04-12 08:07 | admin | Note Added: 0000266 | |
2013-04-12 08:08 | admin | Status | confirmed => acknowledged |
2013-04-13 12:11 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000273 | |
2013-07-04 04:49 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000297 | |
2013-07-04 04:49 | tkmantis | Note Edited: 0000297 | |
2013-07-04 08:09 | admin | Note Added: 0000304 | |
2013-07-05 06:08 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000306 | |
2013-07-28 06:38 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000324 | |
2013-07-28 08:12 | admin | Note Added: 0000325 | |
2013-08-30 15:47 | admin | Relationship added | related to 0000195 |
2013-08-31 16:36 | admin | Note Added: 0000365 | |
2013-09-01 15:35 | admin | Relationship added | related to 0000163 |
2013-09-02 07:38 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000366 | |
2013-09-02 17:59 | admin | Note Added: 0000367 | |
2013-09-05 17:01 | admin | Note Edited: 0000367 | |
2013-09-12 17:05 | admin | Status | acknowledged => closed |
2013-09-12 17:05 | admin | Resolution | open => fixed |
2013-09-12 17:05 | admin | Fixed in Version | => 1.5.6 |