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Beyond Compare 3 editing disabled

With BC2, when I click the Show Differences ... button in SourceGear Vault. This allows me to copy from the repository to the working version and save, but I cannot do this with BC3. It does not allow copying to the other side (right) and disabling editing at the bottom of BC3. This is even the same with DiffMerge. What I don’t understand here?

Can someone explain to me why the changes are in BC3 and is there a workaround?

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Beyond Compare will disable file editing for any of the following reasons:

  • This is one of the input files in the tripartite join.
  • Comparison Canceled
  • An error occurred in the comparison (damaged file, incorrect character encoding, memory, gamma rays, etc.).
  • File format conversion settings do not support conversion to source format (MS Word, PDF)
  • The file is in a read-only file system (7zip / RAR / CHM archives, CD / DVD-ROM)
  • The file or parent folder had editing explicitly disabled by the user in the session settings or using the / ro command line switches.
  • The viewer itself does not support editing (for example, Hex Compare)
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the command line should have a flag for calling BC, such as / ro # or / # ro or / (side) readonly (where the side is left or right), this prevents editing.

these flags exist because different ones often cause temporary files for diff, in particular from SCC. and Vault probably has one "external diff" command, so you need to choose whether the flags are always there, it protects you from undetected editing a temporary file and frees up this work when you close the diff tool or not.

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