When working with Visual Studio 2012 on our current project, the error ‘These files are not text files and cannot be opened in the comparison window.’ shows up every now and again. I’ve tried several things to solve this problem.
Here’s the one that works:
- Close Visual Studio
- Navigate to your version of the ‘c:\users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp\’ folder
- Delete the TFSTemp folder
- Restart Visual Studio and try again. You should be good to go!
Hope this helps.
Hmm is anyone else encountering problems with the pictures on this blog loading?
I’m trying to find out if its a problem on my end or if it’s the blog.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
@Ferdinand No trouble here, tried several posts on different machines…
that helped, Thanks for the workaround
If you still have this issue, give access to TFSTemp folder from security tab to system, admin and special accounts