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marco-calautti / DeltaPatcher

Delta Patcher is a GUI software that is able to create and apply xdelta patches.
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(Not Responding) Keeps Appearing on DeltaPatcher #6

Closed te-agma-at closed 1 year ago

te-agma-at commented 2 years ago

How to reproduce the error: Step 1. Click the folder icon (with "Original file" on the left of the input field) Step 2. Click some times Step 3. You'll eventually see (Not Responding) on the window title ("Delta Patcher Lite (Not Responding)") Step 4. Click a few more times Step 5. See popup that says "is not responding" and choices present "Close the program" or "Wait the program to respond" Step 6. Click "Close the program" EDIT: Okay, so it turns out the same method happens with the "Select a file" window on trying to find the path to the original file to be patched (Do step 1, but wait a while, and then repeat steps 2-6 on the "Select a file" window) EDIT 2: Also happens when selecting folder on "Select a file" window, but it takes longer to respond EDIT 3: Ok... also happens when selecting ANOTHER folder, apparently, but now it takes EVEN LONGER!! I'm starting to think (Not Responding) always appears and you can't get rid of it for some reason... EDIT 4: Happens YET AGAIN when selecting a file as the original. EDIT 5: EDIT 2-4's (Not Responding) persists for XDelta patch selection EDIT 6: Still persists on "Select a file window" EDIT 7: YET AGAIN keeps persisting, see EDIT 5 EDIT 8: Seems like it STILL persists when it tells you "Applying patch, please wait... (don't panic!)" Strange that it tells me to not panic there, because (Not Responding) seems like a valid reason to panic. EDIT 9: "Patch successfully applied"? (Not Responding) persists on that too!

marco-calautti commented 2 years ago

Hi and thanks for you report. I do not think the issue is with Delta Patcher. I am able to use Delta Patcher on my machines (even on wine on linux). I feel this has something to do with your windows installation or your antivirus. Please add an exception to your antivirus to let Delta Patcher run without any restrictions (some antiviruses think Delta Patcher is malware because its exe is compressed). Also, while Delta Patcher is applying the patch, it will not allow any further user input, until the patching process finishes. Some xdelta patches can be very large, and can take quite some time on low-end PCs. So while it is patching, yes, you should just be patient and wait. The patching process WILL finish.

gregvp00 commented 2 years ago

Same problem on Windows 10 21H2

marco-calautti commented 2 years ago

Again, please check your antivirus/Windows Defender. It is 99% sure identifiying delta patcher as a virus, because its exe is compressed.

gregvp00 commented 2 years ago

Again, please check your antivirus/Windows Defender. It is 99% sure identifiying delta patcher as a virus, because its exe is compressed.

Appears to be something else, when Delta's tries to open the File explorer frozes every time I navigate or even opening/closing It. The fastest solution is to drop the file into the program.

marco-calautti commented 2 years ago

Point is, Delta Patcher does nothing special besides asking the OS to open a file dialog. Once the dialog is open, delta Patcher has no control on it. It is purely managed by the OS.

This seems to be a common problem on some Windows 10 installations that is independent of the specific application: https://superuser.com/questions/975648/windows-10-often-freezes-when-saving-or-opening-files

I would investigate in this direction.

marco-calautti commented 2 years ago

Could you please try the latest release? https://github.com/marco-calautti/DeltaPatcher/releases/latest