File-Compare, Editmode: Backup destroys NTFS File-Hardlinks

[StatusQuo]

Feature request posted in http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=14891

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm sorry, backup files are absolutely necessary (at least for files >1 MB), because the file is mapped into memory. Only the changes made by the user are stored in separate buffers.

[StatusQuo]

I'm sorry, backup files are absolutely necessary

No problem, but could they please optionally be deleted after the operation is finished?

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, this could be done. I will postpone this until after the TC7.0 final release though, I still don't trust my self-written text editor 100% yet...

[sas2000]

 
2Christian
 

I will postpone this until after the TC7.0 final release though

AFAIK is not possible to configure Tc 7.02a to automatically delete .BAK files after comparison, may you implement it on a future version ?, thanks.
 

[StatusQuo]

Until the backup files can be deleted by TC, you can find an AHK workaround in this thread:
[REQ] File-Compare Editmode: Backups only optional

[ghisler(Author)]

The next version will delete .bak files from the TEM\_tc folder when the main file is deleted (e.g. when re-packing or re-uploading). However, normal .bak files will not be deleted for now.