You can compare the content of the two folders on this page to find out if their files are identical or different. The following options are available in the top toolbar buttons.

• Set up an external visual file comparison program - you can set up an external visual file comparison program to compare content of files in the list view after a folder comparison . For example, you may enter the full path name of a visual file comparator program like WinMerge, KDff3, etc., in the following dialog box, and their appropriate command line parameters, which must include '%p1' and '%p2' representing the source and reference file names, respectively.
  
  
  

• Auto-scroll - press this button to enable or disable auto-scrolling of the file logs during comparison.
• Clear logs - press this button to clear file comparison logs.
• Export logs - press this button to export comparison logs to a file in HTML or XML format.

Source

Browse or select a source path name for comparison.

Reference

Browse or select a reference path name to be compared with the source path.

File Types

Select the file types for comparison. Leave it empty to compare all file types.

Excluded Subs

Select subfolder names to be excluded from the comparison. The default value is none.

Excluded Files

Select the file types to be excluded during file comparison.

Include subfolders

Select this option to include all subfolders for file comparison.

Compare both ways

Select this option to compare folder content both ways.

Compare only folder contents

Select this option to compare only folder contents, i.e., files will be compared only by their size and last modified timestamp. Otherwise, the binary content of the files will be compared. If files are located on a cloud storage, their hash values will be computed and compared.

Compare NTFS named streams

Select this option to compare alternate named data streams of files stored on NTFS formatted drives. The default is not to compare alternate named data streams of files.

Compare

Press this button to start comparing selected source and reference paths.

Stop

Press this button to stop the currently running comparison task. Note that file comparison is done in the background and will continue to run even if you close this UI application without pressing the Stop button.

Show options

Select an option to filter file names based on their comparison status.

• Show All - shows all files without any filtering.
• Identical - select this option to view only identical files.
• Different - select this option to view files that have a different last modification time.
• Newer - shows files that have a newer last modified time stamp in the source folder.
• Older - shows files that have an older last modified time stamp in the source folder.
• Unique - shows files that are present in the source folder but not in the reference folder.
• Missing - shows files that are present in the reference folder but not in the source folder.
• Excluded - select this option to view files excluded from comparison.
• Aborted - shows files which were not compared due to pressing of the Stop button.
• Error - shows files for which there were some errors during comparison.

Run as

Select an account name to run the file comparison operations. You can select System, Current user, or any account name added earlier. For accessing a shared network folder, you need to select either the current user or a specific administrator user account name who has access to this network shared folder.

Thread count

Set the number of threads to be used for file comparison process. A value of four or more is recommended for today's system with a multi-core CPU.

File list

The ListView will show file names, comparison status, and other properties like size, last modified time stamp, hash value, and file format, when available. You can select one or more files in the list and click the right mouse button to open the following pop-up menu options.

• Compare - open the visual file comparison program to compare selected source and reference files.
• Open - open either the source or reference file.
• Synchronize - synchronize selected files from source to reference path, or vice versa. Here only files with an older timestamp will be updated.
• Copy - copy selected files from source to reference path, or vice versa. Files in the destination path will be overwritten even if they have a newer last modified time stamp.
• Delete - delete selected files from either source or reference path. Note that you may not be able to undo this delete operation or recover the deleted files.
• Copy file name - copy selected file names into clipboard.
• Copy path name - copy selected file path names into clipboard.