Autover 3.01 keeps crashing after a few seconds without any message on Windows 11 Pro 23H2

[rajiv-mittal]

Autover 3.01 keeps crashing after a few seconds without any message on Windows 11 Pro 23H2.

[AAide]

I confirm that it crashes with this version 3.01. I've reverted to version 2.2.1.

[RonaldDad]

Ditto. No longer crashing for me with 2.2.1, but now not creating backup version files. Should I suspect WinMerge latest version? But not sure what version to use in Win 11 24H2.

[fmaddin]

v3 was crashing, windows 10 pro, went to 2.2.1

[RobertJSawyer]

With 2.2.1, I suddenly began having crashes, including the "index and length must refer to the position within the string" error on Windows 11 Pro. I tried 3.0.1, but that had the same problem. The fix I found was to manually edit this file:

C:\Users\All Users\AutoVer\AUTOVER.XML

Each watcher is described in this file between <WatcherConfig> and </WatcherConfig> tags — and, somehow, multiple entries for the same watcher had been created with differing values. I deleted all but one entry for each watcher. I also reinstalled 2.2.1 (which you can get here), and installed it as a service .

It's now working again for me without crashes.