The EHD’s mirror what is on the C-Drive I use the EHD’s to back up the exact data, the same number of files found on the C-Drive. I have a C-Drive (Windows 10) and several EHD’s (external hard drives). In this post, we are sharing software that can do that compare the same files in the same folder in different locations. It can be a text file or images and so on. The source folder always has more files, and that’s where you would like to compare them. You can assume this is a backup case where you cloned the same set of folders and plan to take a backup every day. Using the Open-dialog is just one of them.The case we are discussing here is where you keep the same set of files at multiple places. WinMerge allows selecting/opening paths in several ways. When you launch a file compare operation on binary files, WinMerge opens each file in the binary file editor. WinMerge can detect whether files are in text or binary format. Table compare shows the contents of CSV/TSV files in table format. WinMerge can compare images and highlight the differences in several ways. The tree view is available only in recursive compares.

This is useful for an easier navigation in deeply nested directory structures. In the tree view, folders are expandable and collapsible, containing files and subfolders. Folder compare view can be versatile customised. Folder compare allows synchronising folders by copying and deleting files and subfolders. Folder Comparison Resultsįolder compare shows all files and subfolders found from compared folders as list. The 3-way file compare even allows comparing and editing three files at the same time. Editing allows user to easily do small changes without need to open files to other editor or development environment. File compare window is basically two files opened to editor into two horizontal panes.

Winmerge folder compare