File Diff/Merge hangs

[resudnatstseT]

I had the same problem with the hanging diff/merge and solved it this way:

In the FileDiffer.ini (see C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\TestStand 2014 (32-bit)\Cfg\FileDiffer.ini), there is a line with value "false"

</AppSize>
<AppMaximized classname='Bool'>
	<value>false</value>
</AppMaximized>

After having changed it to "true" and restarting of TestStand, it worked 🙂

</AppSize>
<AppMaximized classname='Bool'>
	<value>true</value>
</AppMaximized>

I don't know why this caused a problem. However, I found it by comparing a FileDiffer.ini from a TestStand 64bit version (which I had installed a long time ago but not used) with the FileDiffer.ini from the 32bit version causing problems.

[PatSpring]

Thanks for posting! 🙂

[greenferret]

Finally 🙂

It worked for me too.

However I changed from true to false.

[resudnatstseT]

I am working with 2 monitors, so when I had this problem, the diff-merge window appeared on my 2nd screen and freezed. Maybe that causes this problem?

[PatSpring]

I also use 2 monitors.

[rantanplan86]

I had the same problem and I solved it only by renaming the "FileDiffer.ini" into "FileDiffer_old.ini"

(It should be also possible to delete the "FileDiffer.ini" because after executing the File Diff function again the "FileDiffer.ini" will be regenerated)

So I think it´s related to a corrupted "FileDiffer.ini" which contains the results from the last "File Diff " executing.

Many thanks to resudnatstseT for solving this issue!!!

[DGriffithjr]

I am running TS2016FP1-32bit and had to change my appsize setting from true to false to get it to run properly.

[mbstratton]

thanks, this still an issue 3 years later.   Here I just deleted "C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\TestStand 2013\Cfg\FileDiffer.ini" and it worked.

[AJafari]

I had the same issue with TS2012 and modifying that value from true to false (as others also did) resolved the issue. Thanks for the tip.

It might be worth mentioning that for me the issue only presented itself when launching the diff tool directly. When I compared 2 sequence files within TestStand the diff tool always worked and in-fact doing so made the issue go away for while with launching it standalone.

It's going to be interesting to see if it comes back again but it looks like some sort of issue during initialization of the tool.

[mbstratton]

Thanks for posting.  I have found you can just delete (or rename) the file. FileDiffer.ini and teststand will make a new copy.

C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\TestStand 2013\Cfg\FileDiffer.ini