Developer's Description By Juan M. Directory Compare is a utility to help you keeping copies of your important directories like documents, programs under development and so on in a backup hard disk or any other storage system, as well as in a compressed. The backup may be made automatically in unattended mode or by using a friendly user interface. The program can be used to synchronize the two locations or to update only the contents of one of the directories.
There are several settings available which enable users to decide how the program should act if there are two files with the same time stamp. Full Specifications. What's new in version 3. Release May 8, Date Added May 8, Version 3. Operating Systems.
Additional Requirements None. Total Downloads Downloads Last Week 1. Report Software. Related Software. Manage your hard drive partitions and improve their performance. To unlock all the feature, you have to buy its pro version. DirDiff is a free and portable folder compare software for Windows. Through it, you can compare directories, folders, or even individual files with each other.
In DirDiff, you can add and compare two folders, at a time. On its interface, you can view contents contained by both folders in a single list. In this list, unique contents of both folders are highlighted in different colors red and green and common content remains white.
Files and documents contained by folders can also be modified directly from this software. Through its file comparison feature, you can also compare two files. Instead of showing the text of files side by side, it actually superimposes the text of one file to other. All the common text remains the same. It also has some additional features that you may find useful, like option to view the structure of XML document, find in feature to find any particular text, floating drag handle icon to quickly add documents or files for comparison , etc.
DiffDaff is another alternative for a free software to compare folders. It can also be used to compare files, and web pages. Using it, you can compare two files and folders at a time. You can also compare folders that have sub folders in it. Text can also be compared using this software, but special characters used in word and excel file formats are not supported by it. To compare folders, you have to add two folders in it.
From the results, you can easily identify common and unique contents because of the use of highlighting schemes green and red. Comparison result also incorporates partitioned interface to split the content of folders. FreeCommander is an advanced folder compare software for Windows. It is also used as an alternative of Windows file explorer. Its main feature is its dual panel file explorer window, through which you can open and compare files and folders of the system.
To compare folders, just select any two target folders through its dual panel file explorer. On the toolbar, you can view various sections like File, Folders, View, etc. In output, you get only unique files of both folders on their respective sides of the panel.
The only limitation of this software is that it does not show common contents between folders. It also has various other handy features like Synchronize to make content of two folders identical , Dedicated file comparison option to compare the text of two files side by side , Filters to filter out the undesired result according to the selected parameters , size of folders to view the size folders files , etc.
MOBZync is yet another free folder compare software for Windows. It is small and easy to use software, but has all essential features to compare folders. Mainly it provides three features named folder comparison, synchronization, and copy. It also provides split interface so that you can compare the content of each folder side by side. To further help you identify the content, it provides bullets of different colors such as Black unchanged content , Green Newer Content , Pink added content , Red Older content.
These bullets simplify the identification of similar and different content between folders. It also shows the total number of files in each folder. Its synchronize feature simply copies the files in both directions to make content of both folders similar. The copy feature is pretty advanced as you can copy changed, unchanged, new, and older content from one folder to other.
Plus, transfer content from left folder to right or vice versa is also possible. File Synchronizer is basically a free file synchronizing software for Windows. It is a very simple software with limited features. Interface of this software is divided into two parts which are used to compare the content of the folders side by side.
You can add two folders at a time for comparison. One folder is added to the left side, while other one is added to right side of interface. After the comparison, it provides all the non-identical content of each folder on their respective sides of interface. But, one major problem with this software is that it does not show the common content between the added folders. Still, it does show the number of common content. Apart from this, some other useful features like synchronize, clone, etc.
Passionate about tech and science, always look for new tech solutions that can help me and others. Home Page. Download Page. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Andriy M Andriy M 73k 16 16 gold badges 90 90 silver badges bronze badges. How do you do this with all changed files in two folders? Like, I compare folder1's contents to folder2's contents: any changed lines in folder2 show up?
If there are files with mismatching names, FC would report a missing file, but only for the first folder's files that aren't found in the second folder and not the other way round. To catch all the mismatches, a different technique would probably be needed. AndriyM So, new files would cause FC to error out without returning any actual lines? Only the error message? Wolfpack' Yes, just the message about the missing counterpart, no lines from the existing party.
But that wouldn't terminate processing of other, existing, file pairs and their comparison would still be carried out, if that's what you were asking. AndriyM So, you mean to say: "If error: files in both directories are diff'd; files in only one directory throw errors. But surely there's a 3rd-party program equivalent to diff? Show 5 more comments. David Heffernan David Heffernan k 40 40 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. The base install of Cygwin does not seem to include diff.
What additional packages do I need to install to get it? I don't recommend cygwin. I'd use a native Win32 port of diff — David Heffernan. WarrenDew The Cygwin package you need is diffutils. See cygwin. Also, you can use the graphical part of it too depending on what you need.
Robert Greiner Robert Greiner Although this is not a built-in Windows utility, I highly recommend it - it is open-source, light-weight, and in my experience bug-free. Tim Hutchison Tim Hutchison 3, 6 6 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges.
JustinCormack Do you have any references for this? I just tried diff in Git Bash and it worked — Tim Hutchison. Tim Hutchison, from your answer: "This will give you not only diff, but also many other linux commands that you can use from the windows command line. Moreover, the answer should probably include one important piece of information: that you need to launch the diff tool by writing git diff , not just diff.
BAK 09 08 09 but in my case I wanted only the lines that have changed and wanted those lines to be exported to different file, without any other header or data. Nimish Choudhary Nimish Choudhary 2, 17 17 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges.
Paul Williams Paul Williams 2, 32 32 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. To my knowledge there are no built-in equivalents. I used that too, however, today I discovered that the pretty old version 2. So now preferring the "git diff" as suggested by firelight.
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