Re: Meld Crashes on large compares

[Mark Phillips <mark phillipsmarketing biz>]

OK, I was able to download the 3.12 version and run that because my GTK+ is only up to 3.10.

This version helped a lot, as I was able to get things to work with the "compare files only by size and timestamp". In that the list of files comes right up and the missing files are indicated.

However, with every "copy right" command I get an error -

Couldn't copy /media/mark/ae408c7b-3c80-4b37-b46f-5898af5406c6/Movies/The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D (1993) 1080p HSBS BrRip x264 YIFY.mp4
to /media/mark/My Passport/Movies/The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D (1993) 1080p HSBS BrRip x264 YIFY.mp4.

[Errno 38] Function not implemented: '/media/mark/My Passport/Movies/The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D (1993) 1080p HSBS BrRip x264 YIFY.mp4'

However, the file is copied correctly. Not sure what the error is trying to tell me, but as far as I can see there is no error. Perhaps a bug fixed in a later release?

Thanks,

Mark

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Mark Phillips <mark phillipsmarketing biz> wrote:

Kai, thanks for the email. Happy New Year!

Version 1.8.4 is what I downloaded tonight from the Ubuntu repositories. I will try installing the new version.

Thanks!

Mark

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:

On 1 January 2017 at 08:56, Mark Phillips <mark phillipsmarketing biz> wrote:

I am using meld 1.8.4 on Ubuntu 14.04. I have two usb drives with lots of media files (ie the files are large). I am trying to compare some directories on the two drives and meld keeps crashing.

dir1 - 381 files and 38.3 GB

dir2 - 367 files and 33.9 GB

When I try to compare the two directories, meld turns gray and never comes back after 10 minutes.

Is there a size limits on the number of files or the directory size that I am hitting? Any settings I should change to make this work?

There's no hard limit on sizes. Meld will just read a file until it's done or you run out of memory. We'll avoid keeping things in memory if we detect that it's a binary file, or if you have the "apply filters to folder comparisons" option disabled. What you're seeing is probably that we block while reading large files.

If you don't need to compare the contents and are happy with assuming that files with the same size and timestamp are identical, you can enable the "compare files only by size and timestamp" option in the preferences.

Also, everything I'm saying is for the 3.16.x series. I'm pretty sure it's mostly the same for 1.8.x, but that's a really very old version by now.

cheers,

Kai