mkbmain / foldercompare

FolderComparer

Allows you to compare 2 folders or drives to see differences between the files and folders.

This was made in order to ensure my backup drive and it's redundancy plan, another back up drive were up to date with each other and in synch.

It seems to work fairly well

Please note

This was done in this version of .net so it was compatible with mono as all \ majority of the development for this was done on linux meaning visual studio designer for forms will probably not work as all forms and controls where done by hand.

Find difference in files and directories

Select Path Let it run

Review

Complete Guide

open the open folder dialog by clicking buttons highligthed in red

Select folder

by clicking the check contents it will do a md5 hash check on the files this can take a long time with out will just compare size of items in bytes to see diffrences. I personally have never found a need to run with the check contents (as it will check size of the files regardless) but the options there if you do require it

then just wait and enjoy, a progress bar buttons will be disabled at this point

once done you will get a little message box

you can now review all differences

you can click the + in the right hand corner of any of the nodes to see details, directories give you these options

File missmatches give you these options

File missing give you these options

Enjoy

of course goes with out saying this has worked for my purposes feel free to edit it for yours.

Legal

This is released under a free to use free to modify (do what you want with the code and images) license. I take no responsiblity for damages or loss\corruption of data.