Compare directories and display number of differences

[wimille]

Hi,

Is it possible when you use the synchronize directories function, in order to compare two directories content, to display, for each file which are different, the number of these differents.

I explain myself:
I've two directories (call them A and B), i want to check if files from A are the same that ones from B.

Moreover, i know that all files contains at least one difference (date in file header).

So i want to select, only the files which have more than 1 difference.

Is it possible with TC?

Thanks

[Wilhelm M.]

Hello,

I don't know about such a possibility with TC and I doubt that such a feature would be usable.
I think a task like this could only be realised by a byte-to-byte comparison. A comparison of check sums would not do.
Each and every byte of a file had to be compared with each and every byte of the other file which would be extremely slow.

Are those files that have only 1 difference equal in size and date? Then the normal comparison by contents in TC should see them as equal.
But on the other hand you will probably have tried that already.

So sorry but I think it cannot be done.

[makinero]

Only Example:
Directory Compare 2.3

http://www.galcott.com/dc_ss.htm

15-day TRIAL

[Wilhelm M.]

Only Example:
Directory Compare 2.3
http://www.galcott.com/dc_ss.htm
15-day TRIAL

Are you sure? From what I read in the description on that page I would guess that the programme does pretty much the same as the sync function of TC and most of the other synchronising programmes also.