I want to compare two folders, each having about 5-6 thousands files and folders. Among these probably 0.1% would be actually different but Win Merge first shows all files saying "text files are different" and when I open these files one by one it opens a dialog saying contents in both files are same. It is nearly impossible for me to find files actually having different text, in this way.
First, I tried to set options but no cuccess.
Then, I thought this initial difference may be due to different time stamps. So I made all file time stamps (create, last modified and last accessed ) exactly same but result is still same.
Am I missing something? or is there any way to to filter the list so that I may see only the files with some difference? or any other idea?
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migrated from stackoverflow.com Aug 10 '10 at 15:25
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I would have thought that WinMerge with the following settings would work:
If it doesn't, I would ask the question in their forums. |
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Try setting the Compare option "Ignore carriage return differences". Differences in line endings (CRLF/CR/LF) are the usual suspect when one mode of comparison (binary) reports differences but another mode (text) claims that the files are the same. |
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Try with the software called 'Beyond Compare'. |
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You might want to try ECMerge or Araxis as well. They both have appropriate settings to ignore spaces / CRLF. |
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