Re: Spurious changes on Windows 7 (Win 7 Win7)

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 13:05, Allen <oldracingcars_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently updated from a Windows XP PC to a Windows 7 machine and
> moved across several repos.
>
> When I do a commit, all (or the vast majority anyway) of the Excel
> (.xls XLS) spreadsheets are listed as having changed.  And a few PDFs
> too.  I have checked the last updated dates on the files and some
> haven't changed for years but for some reason SVN is seeing a
> difference.
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing this?

It's Excel. Open any Excel file, then close it. Don't change anything,
don't click Save, just open it and close it. Excel changes something
in the file & doesn't tell you about it. You can't always trust a Last
Modified date - they're easily manipulated.

I just opened Excel & created a spreadsheet with a value in cell A1.
Then I quit Excel, opened the file, then quit Excel. MD5 checksum
confirms - Excel changed the file and I didn't do a thing.

C:\>c:\_apps\tools\unxutil\md5sum Book1.xls
5b2fa69b9322179bdeae0f2e1525b846 *Book1.xls

C:\>c:\_apps\tools\unxutil\md5sum Book1.xls
482db9d75a2a384ef248fc69b3072755 *Book1.xls

Subversion can't do anything about other apps that behave this way.

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Received on 2010-07-29 19:23:31 CEST