Dear Bert,
I have had this problem, without finding the cause.
I use
Compare quite often on a 100 page document (which has multiple
maintainers and regular updates), and usually, the Differences
file is generated in a few minutes.
Twice, Compare has behaved as you describe and when I stopped the
process then restarted it the problem had gone. I came to the
conclusion that synchronisation had been lost between the two copies,
and that every character was then considered as having changed.
Perhaps that idea is incorrect, but Compare is working properly more
than 90% of the time.
Regards,
Gordon.
On 11/14/2015 04:15 AM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
Dear LyX users,
I am attempting to compare two versions of a LyX document using Tools
- Compare. The document is roughly 60,000 characters including spaces,
and my rough estimate is that 5% of the document has been changed
between the two versions.
I suspect I am doing something wrong, because the tool has been
running for over an hour, reports 40,000+ differences, and that it is
0% complete.
Any advice?
Thanks,
BL
PS - LyX 2.1.4 with MikTeX 2.9 on W10 Pro 64-bit.
