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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: Gutbucket on June 24, 2015, 01:00:35 PM
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I'm going though my raw recording archives- backups stored on various hdds stored in multiple places, consolidating, cleaning things up, FLACing old non-compressed stuff, etc. General archive/file management stuff.
It's a PITA looking for directory/file differences by using 'file properties' across large selected groups of directories, comparing the byte size of the two selections, slowly narrowing down the selections by half until I can locate where any differences actually lie. Looking for a good tool which compares two selected ranges of directories and produces a list of all discrepancies between them. Can anyone recommend a good file/directory comparison tool for Windows (7 / XP), preferably free/shareware?
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I could probably write something in Perl; it wouldn't be pretty, but it would get the job done. It would, of course, need to be run command line.
If interested, let me know.
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There are lots of free / OpenSource diff & compare tools which will allow you to compare the contents of two directories.
- Winmerge (http://winmerge.org/) is Windows-only.
- Kdiff3 (http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net) and Meld (http://meldmerge.org/) are cross-platform tools. I.e. there are versions for Windows, Linux and MacOS
If you're going to automate your cleanup tasks or if there are more specific requirements, I'd go with some Perl or Python script, too.
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Thanks to you both.
I'll check out the options linked above and see if that does the trick.