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Free First public release date Year of latest stable version Windows Macintosh Linux Other platforms Max supported file size Beyond Compare: Scooter Software [1] No; Proprietary: No 1996 2024-11-25 (v5.0.4) Yes Yes Yes > 2GB (64 bits) Compare++: Coode Software [2] No; Proprietary No 2010 2016-7-17 (3.0.1.0b) Yes [3] No No diff, diff3: AT&T
The most common application of Synchronize It! is to compare two folders — a source folder and a target folder. Users can choose whether subfolders should be included (allowing exclusion of specific subfolders), whether only matching folders should be compared and users can apply file filters.
Commonly done by calculating and storing hash function digests of files to detect if two files with different names, edit dates, etc., have identical contents. Programs which do not support it, will behave as if the originally-named file/directory has been deleted and the newly named file/directory is new and transmit the "new" file again.
WinMerge is a free software tool for data comparison and merging of text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.
It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and supports many version control systems including Git, Mercurial, Baazar, CVS and Subversion. Meld is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL-2.0-or-later).
Beyond Compare is a cross-platform proprietary data comparison utility. The program is able to compare files and multiple types of directories , as well as archives . [ 1 ] Beyond Compare can be configured as a difftool and mergetool of version control systems , such as git .
SyncToy was a freeware tool in Microsoft's PowerToys series that provided an easy-to-use graphical user interface for synchronizing files and folders in Windows versions XP, Vista, 7 and 10. It was written using Microsoft's .NET Framework and used the Microsoft Sync Framework .
Displaying the differences between two or more sets of data, file comparison tools can make computing simpler, and more efficient by focusing on new data and ignoring what did not change. Generically known as a diff [1] after the Unix diff utility, there are a range of ways to compare data sources and display the results.