Disable P4V Auto Refresh of “Reconcile Offline Work” If Window is Left Open

Question

If I do "Reconcile Offline Work" in P4V, after a while the reconciling will finish and a window will eventually pop up showing the files that were modified, added, or removed. Sometimes I know the reconciling will take a few minutes or more based on the huge number of files in the directory, so I move on and start working on something else, and I expect that the reconciling will be done when I return later. However, sometimes, when I go back to P4V several minutes later, I see the window filled in with all of the modified, added, and removed files for a brief moment before they get blanked out and the scan seems to start all over again.

This can be quite aggravating since I'm trying to avoid having to sit around and wait for the reconciling to complete, but I end up having to wait for multiple reconciles when I only want to do it once.

Any ideas as to what causes this or how to turn off this repeated reconciling when I only want to reconcile once?

I'm using the "2014.3" version.

Answer 1

I did a bit of additional searching on this and finally stumbled upon the answer!

This is bug #70465: https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/user/p4vnotes.txt

#1171326 (Bug #70465)
    There is now a preference to disable global refresh affecting the Reconcile 
    Offline Work dialog. Default is to continue allowing global refresh to
    update the dialog. The preference can be found on the Behavior page in
    preferences.

Updating to a newer version (2015.1 or newer) will allow me to disable the global refresh in the Preferences/Behavior menu.