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By: dkhacker

dkhacker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:27:04 +0000

Great program! The ability to go line by line and sync or not sync a file is something I have not found in any other software. This function allows you to sync the whole file or just portions of it–invaluable.

By: Fubar

Fubar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:45:25 +0000

Regarding my comment #17 about WinMerge not seeing my 7-Zip installation, there are a couple of issues. First, the plug-in only supports a particularly version of 7-Zip, so you have to use that version, you can’t use a newer beta version of 7-Zip. Second, there is a bug in the way WinMerge parses the 7-Zip program path. The 7-Zip .msi, which I prefer, ends the path with “\”. WinMerge actually does find the 7-Zip DLL and correctly displays its version, but because it creates a path containing “\\”, it gets confused and thinks 7-Zip isn’t installed. If you use the 7-Zip .exe installer, it leaves off the trailing “\” in the path, and WinMerge is happy. At least, that’s the only difference I noticed between the .msi and .exe installations.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:56:51 +0000

Nice idea. Very slow.

By: fots

fots — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:26:26 +0000

I use kdiff and the excellent SyncBack Freeware Edition for file / folder compare and sync.

I strongly recommend anyone who uses SyncToy to try SyncBack, it’s so much better and doesn’t require .NET framework.

http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html

Cheers

By: Gary Glitter

Gary Glitter — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:00:59 +0000

Question, can this be used for differentiating extremely large image file collections? I want to separate imagery by length, girth, depth, etc., and other special characteristics known only to me and my adopted servants. Please answer in Thai. I’m using Ubuntu if it makes any difference, and she’s great, especially on top.

By: Nammerama

Nammerama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:00:10 +0000

Regarding my note above (#58). This program is not as good as I thought it was originally. I gave it a thumbs down, but said that it seemed fine for comparing folder contents. I was wrong. I have since discovered that even though the program says it will compare sub-folders too, it appears to only search one sub-folder deep. I was very disappointed to learn this and realized that I am still going to have to go through many of my back up folders manually because it would take me just as long to use this program as it would for me to do it the old fashioned way.

By: Ben Sando

Ben Sando — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:49:01 +0000

Actually I was just a little curious so the program was installed on my XP prof PC.
What an easy install – it worked with NO cut and paste :)

So now why not check my PDA back-up files – I got a lot of them with more or less similar contents. Worked smooth :)

Now why not make a ‘master’ back-up by merging the newest files ?
No problem !

I’m confident that I could have done this with some of my other programs – BUT until now I didn’t do it !
This program simply asked for the job !

It’s about 6AM here so the clean up will wait …. Thanks GAOTD :)

By: Nammerama

Nammerama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:47:47 +0000

This program seems fine for comparing folders that may contain some of the same files, but syncing takes a lot longer than I would have expected. Also, seems to take up a lot of resources once sync has started. There is no good way to cancel once started. I gave it a thumbs down because although it is a good idea, the program itself is really sluggish when it comes to the actual functionality (ie- syncing).

By: frank

frank — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:45:26 +0000

http://winmerge.org/
WinMerge is an Open Source (GPL) visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

Features

* Visual differencing and merging of text files
* Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
* Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
* Unicode support
* Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
* Location pane shows map of files compared
* Highlights differences inside lines in file compare
* Regular Expression based file filters in directory compare allow excluding and including items
* Moved lines detection in file compare
* Creates patch files
* Resolve conflict files
* Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions)
* Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration
* Archive file support using 7-Zip
* Plugin support
* Localizable interface

By: TK_M

TK_M — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:01:19 +0000

Just a suggestion for the writers, perhaps in future versions you might add support for the scientific date format of

YYY/MM/DD