Compare Folders

Licence: Commercial with demo
Version 3.1 | Release Date: 2008-06-11 | Download
  • Merge support
    • Customizable, multi-threaded engine for merging results
    • Allows moving or copying of results
  • Folder size calculation now displays logical size [includes bundled file formats as well, like RTFD]
  • New look and feel for the Welcome screen (accessible under the Help menu and on first launch)
  • Added layout switcher toolbar item
  • Display difference in size between items in Similar Items' Difference column
  • Removed quit on window close behavior and adjust accordingly
  • Recent Items/Recent Comparisons no longer adds duplicate items [as well as other optimizations]
  • Info windows are now a 1:1 relationship and don't open duplicates
  • Fixed incorrect formatting of file sizes which would create erroneous results
  • increased file size precision to 2 decimal places
  • Properly degrade to byte(s) in file sizes instead of using 0.XX KB
  • Fixed folder type registration (for drag acceptance) on 10.5
  • Save Text Results now respects byte preference
  • Rollovers only occur if the application is active
  • Removed toolbar button and disable zoom button on preferences titlebar to match other apps
  • Fixed uninstall window not going away if canceled
  • Fixed clear button in iDisk Uploads to disable if no items are present
  • Various memory optimizations
Version 3.0 | Release Date: 2007-12-18 | Download
  • Difference Engine 2.0
    • Optimized performance to handled tens of thousands of items in results (limited only by memory now)
    • Don't show package contents in results
    • Display package's type appropriately
    • Removed extra preference checks that occurred during a comparison (faster performance)
    • Fixed odd extensions showing for folders with "." in the their path
  • "FilePeek" Item Action
    • shows the contents of files in a HUD window for preview and comparison, including:
      • web (html, htm, xhtml, webarchive)
      • movie (mov, mpeg, mpg, avi, dv)
      • image (png, gif, jpg, jpeg, tiff, tif, bmp)
      • text (txt, rtfd, rtf, css, php, m, h, c, cpp, java, xml, plist, doc)
      • PDF (pdf)
  • Live results filtering via search field in toolbar
  • "Archived Selected" Item Action to create zip archives (using the zip tool)
  • Memory optimizations for the entire app
  • Basic plugin architecture now supported
  • Numbers are formatted using the system's setting
  • Dates are formatted using the system's setting (short and long styles)
  • Review Changes dialog shows appropriate options when quitting
  • Calculate iDisk sizes up to GB appropriately
  • Added preference for interface animations
  • Added Credits section to About window
  • Minor UI polish across the entire app
  • Fixed copying to prefer local cp over bundled cp
  • Enabled basic AppleScript support (no custom suite or behavior yet)
  • Upgraded included Growl to 1.1.2
  • Upgraded included Smart Crash Reports to 1.2.1
Version 2.6 | Release Date: 2007-04-22 | Download

2.6

* Show Icons is now a per-comparison option instead of a global one
* Save to Text for generating text-based reports of results of a comparison
* Added option to scroll Similar Items results together (when one scrolls so does the other)
* New Growl notification for copying
* Added tab-switching keyboard shortcuts and menu items
* Completely rewritten and redesigned Help
* Revised demo functionality: [DEMO] is in the title, General pane tracks remaining number of trial comparisons, a Buy Now! button appears once the trial expires and updates occur immediately instead of when attempting to compare the next time
* Added option to quit without saving
* Choose custom sound from the same list as that found in the OS X Sounds preference pane
* Dragging now copies the full description of an item instead of the name only
* Folder paths are now clickable rollovers, including a reset button
* When switching tabs or layouts an animation occurs
* Get Info window now displays the detected difference for a Similar Item
* When attempting to open a Recent Folder or Comparison the item will be checked and if it can't be found, a prompt will let you know and it can be removed from the menu
* Updated Smart Crash Reports support to 1.2
* Updated Growl support to 0.7.5
* Fixed toolbar and menu items not properly disabling after folders have been reset
* Fixed jagged icons in results
* Upgraded included version of cp to a Universal one
* Fixed inspector not following selection when switching tabs
* Fixed registered user's name not appearing in General, registration also updates immediately now
* Rebundled the Spotlight importer for saved comparisons
* Fixed byte count not updating results when changed
* Fixed status text not properly updating when resetting from a folder's contextual menu
* Fixed dock icon badges sticking when canceling, quitting, or relaunching
* Fixed issues with recent items not loading when clicked
* Upgraded Sparkle support to use SparklePlus 1.1
* Minor visual tweaks to alignment and text, rename sheet is now resizable
* Fixed bug in List Files in Uninstall Assistant that would list files that weren't necessarily present
* Removed hardware-related portion of Feedback window, as SparklePlus addresses this
* Dragging items now properly copy to the URL pasteboard as well (including multiple items)
* Contextual help buttons are now re-enabled