StarTeam’s File Compare / Merge tool
I used to use DiffMerge as an alternate file compare/merge tool, but I’ve found that under StarTeam 2008 Release 2, it now leaves annotation artifacts in my file, something like this:
[newer file]
Since I’m working in C#, the compiler doesn’t take too kindly to literal symbols in the middle of its files. For the time being, I’m resigned to using StarTeam’s built-in tool.
One day, however, the built-in File Compare/Merge tool stopped working on me. The progress bar said “Finding Differences…”, flickering from left to right, never completing.
I resolved the issue by stopping StarTeam and deleting the syncdb folder under my Local Settings\Application Data\Borland\StarTeam folder.
I hope this information helps someone. I wasn’t able to find another page describing this. Anybody else have this issue?
I just reinstalled ST completely to solve this, thrice now. Have been looking for a resolution for this for a while. How can a company have such a blatantly idiotic bug in it? My assumption is that since Borland bought ST, they haven’t used ST as source control for their ST codebase. Eat your own dogfood – I find more errors that way than all users combined have ever found – not while debugging/testing, but while using it as a user would.
This did not work for me
so I reinstalled for a fourth time.
I stumbled upon the same problem and decided to follow your advice. So, I deleted the folder Local Settings\Application Data\Borland\StarTeam (which, by the way, had only the empty folder Tools inside, nothing else), restarted StarTeam and the problem miraculously disappeared.
Thanks a lot!