Beyond Compare - how to ignore readonly flag for TFS files when comparing

Question

I am trying to use Beyond Compare to compare files that have read only flags (caused from TFS) to a directory of files that should be identical other than the readonly flag.

Is there a Beyond Compare setting that will ignore the readonly flag. I realize I could manually clear the readonly flag via windows but this but this is time consuming/etc.

Beyond Compare Version 3.2.4 (build 13298) TFS 2010

Answer 1

By read only flags, do you mean the DOS read only attribute (like system, hidden, archive)? Beyond Compare already ignores those by default.

Use the Session->Session Settings... menu item to open the comparison preferences dialog. On the Comparison tab make sure that Read-only is unchecked under Compare file attributes. If there are also differences in the last modified times of the files you should turn on the Compare contents checkbox too.