18414 HC "The process cannot access..."

[Aaron]

I haven't reproduced it on my system yet, so I was looking to limit the setup/configuration so I could get this to occur on my system.

[chrisjj]

Hello,

Does this reproduce if you attempt to Hex Compare the same files, or use a similar workflow? If you close the Text Compare and then re-open it, is it able to read your files still?

If it did, what would be the answer?

[Aaron]

Hello,

Does this reproduce if you attempt to Hex Compare the same files, or use a similar workflow? If you close the Text Compare and then re-open it, is it able to read your files still?

[chrisjj]

How is it that a file redable by Text Compare is unreadable by Hex Compare, even though it is small enough to fit into memory? E.g.