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Article #393Re: Unique File finder..not duplicates
From: Aleckie59
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:32
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:32
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Phred wrote: > In article <8e0f$44ea295c$d84429ae$6574@FUSE.NET>, Dave <nodlee5spam@fuse.net> wrote: > >I'm looking for any suggestions to find the unique files when comparing > >two directories.Only way I know of now is using 2xplorer's synchronize > >panes function.Any other simple or stand-alones? > > I've often wondered about a similar facility. > > Years ago there was an Oz shareware program called Two Disks (which I > actually thought useful enough to pay for :) which was designed to > compare files on two floppy drives. (I did say it was years ago. :-) > Admittedly, you could fool it into handling *one* HDD directory as a > "drive" by specifying 'C:' for the default directory, but that was > about as complex as it got. > > It had a really useful display and options for managing the files in > the two displayed drives. IIRC, it was something like: > > Files on A not on B > Files on B not on A > Identical files on A & B > .. [memory starts to fail about here %-) ] > > It was then a simple matter of selecting files in one list and giving > a command to COPY/MOVE to the other "drive", or just DELETE from A/B. > > I've often wished for a similar simple utility for modern systems. > Any suggestions? > > Cheers, Phred. > > -- > ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID Comparison http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/File_Management/File_Comparison/ http://www.downloadery.com/most/file-comparison/ http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Backup/ Have a look thro' these, Phred. I remember the one you spoke about.
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