L
Little Girl
Hey there,
I'm back after a couple of years' hiatus (Hey you guys, I missed
you!), and I thought I'd share my freeware experiences during that
time. I hunted around for folder/file comparison software to use over
my home network to make sure my networked backups are identical to the
copy on my computer (both computers run WinXP Pro and are connected by
a local hub). I've tried quite a few comparison programs, some backup
programs, and some dual pane file managers.
After doing all the testing, I came up with this method: I use
Comparator to verify the accuracy of the directory structure between
the backups on both of my computers. I then use My Own Backup to
create backup zip files of all the folders I care about on my drive. I
then test the zips (using my compression software) in the temporary
directory I sent them to. And, last but not least, I use Karen's
Replicator to copy them to my backup directory and to my other
computer over the local network. Once finished, I delete the contents
of the temporary directory. This system is fool-proof, works great for
me, and has proven very fast and reliable. Maybe it will work for
others as well.
Here are my reviews of 16 programs:
2xExplorer v1.4.1.12
This one is network aware and seems rather modern compared to many
I've tried. It is, however, a bit clumsy for me to use. It will take
me a while to become comfortable using it. No install is required, and
to remove, just delete its folder and one registry key (which the
author tells you where to find). It looks to me like comparing
subfolders must be done one at a time manually rather than all at once
automatically, which is my reason for not keeping it around. But I'm
sure it's a very nice program for things other than folder/file
comparison.
HOME: http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
DOWNLOAD: http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/34054.shtml
CmparEbi v.1.0
No install is needed for this one. It's not network aware, but it can
work with network drives if they're mapped. It's very slow, but
thorough. It has a dual pane display for visually (manually) comparing
folders and files, and a single pane display for results of its
automatic comparison. The main window of the program is small and
cannot be resized. If you use long filenames or have nested
subdirectories, the results will run off the screen and can't be
accessed. The only way to view them is to highlight them one by one
after checking the Show Hints button in the program's settings. More
than one instance of this program can be run at a time, making it
possible to do many comparisons at once. I'll keep it around for quick
looks at directory structure, but it won't be my main program for such
things.
HOME: http://homepages.borland.com/torry/util_filedrv.htm
DOWNLOAD:
http://homepages.borland.com/torry/apps/utilities/filedrv/comparebi.zip
Comparator v2.2
This is an excellent dual pane directory and file comparison tool.
It's fast, works well over a network with no noticeable lag, gives
full Explorer access to all files it finds, has tabbed dual pane
windows for Missing Files, Newer Files, and Duplicate Files, and
leaves it to you to decide what to do with the results. You are not
given Explorer access to the files, and you cannot view the contents
of, or run any of the files from within the program, but you can copy,
update and/or delete from one panel to another when discrepancies are
found. It can handle large jobs with multiple subdirectories, is easy
to work with and understand, and I've verified manually that it's
totally accurate in its determinations. The only thing I can find that
it won't do is let you know if one of your comparison folders has an
empty subfolder in it that's missing from the other. You can, however,
compare directory structure manually in the two small browsing windows
above the results window, and can make sure no folders are missing,
although having this done automatically would probably make this the
perfect comparison tool. This one is my favorite by far. I heartily
recommend it.
HOME: http://softbytelabs.com/Comparator/index.html
CompFold v1.4.1.19
No install is necessary for this program. This seems to be an older
program, but is network aware. It's quite powerful, so be careful (C
drive can be deleted quite easily using this program!). It has dual
screen display when showing the differences between folders/files, but
you need to learn the meaning of the text keys to understand what the
program is telling you. I like the File Differences tab. If there's a
difference between two files, you right-click on one of them and
select Show Differences. The File Differences tab automatically comes
to the forefront with a dual pane display of the two files. Each one
has blank space where anything is missing and red highlighted text if
something is in one that's not in the other. For quick text file
comparisons, this would be a nice program to keep around.
HOME: http://home.freeuk.net/mpescod/
DOWNLOAD: http://home.freeuk.net/mpescod/Downloads/CF141_19.zip
Directory Compare v2.53
This program provides a single pane display of results. I find it
cumbersome to use since the readout isn't immediately understandable,
but must be learned. This program does, however, let you know if
there's an empty subfolder in one of the compared folders, which is
rare in these comparison programs. This program is network aware and
runs fast. Explorer's functions are not available from within this
program, however you can define an action for the program to perform
if you double click a file.
HOME: http://tp.lc.ehu.es/jma/win95.html
DOWNLOAD: http://tp.lc.ehu.es/anonym/win95/drcmp253.exe
DualXplorer v1.01
No install is necessary for this program. It's not immediately network
aware, but can work with mapped drives, or can help you to map them
from within its menus. Full Explorer context menus are available from
within the program. Dual pane manual comparison of folders and
subfolders is possible, but I haven't found a way to just compare the
two and have the program highlight or in some way point out the
differences. Synchronizing the directories is available from the menu,
but I'm the type of person who'd like to see the differences for
myself rather than allowing a program to make the changes without my
knowing what they even are. For dual pane exploring, this is a nice
program you'll be at home in if you're at home in Explorer, but it's
not what I'm looking for in a comparison tool.
HOME: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/authors/a0004178.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/DualXplorer.zip
FmEdit98 v2.0
This is a dual pane file manager which recognizes networks. It takes a
moment to load the program, and it tries to go for my floppy drive
before settling on my C drive. I like the fact that there are small
browsing windows above each main window of the dual pane, making
navigation much faster and more accurate than other navigation
methods. With this program you can visually (manually) compare two
directories and their subdirectories and files, but it has no
comparison tool of its own. All Explorer functions are available from
within the program and it looks and feels much like Explorer. This one
is less clumsy feeling than DualXplorer. It also has a calendar and
calculator available at the touch of a button on the toolbar. This is
a fast, fun little program, but not as powerful as what I'm looking
for. It comes as a self-extracting zip file, and once installed it
instructs you to copy certain of its files to your system directory. I
didn't find it necessary to do that. The program doesn't remember the
last used directories, but it can save favorites for easy reloading.
HOME: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page5.html#FmEdit98
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.downloadcounter.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?username=321dl&account=20
freeCommander v2004.10b
This one isn't network aware, but can work with mapped drives. It's
fast at loading and has a dual pane display. You can easily open two
directories and compare them with a click of a button or from the top
menu. It shows which files are missing by highlighting them in each
pane, but it doesn't show which files are different from one another.
Therefore I wouldn't recommend just this program for verifying that
two directories are identical. You can save directory sets as
favorites. Once this program is installed, you can supposedly copy the
files within its folder to a floppy, a USB stick or a CD and use it
without installing on another computer. It remembers the last
comparison you did and loads that one back up after shutting it down.
There are a ton of options for customization, and it seems like a very
powerful program, but doesn't seem suited to comparisons.
HOME: http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://www.freecommander.com/fc_downl_en.htm
Karen's Replicator v2.2.3
This is a directory and file synchronization program. I recommend
using one of the other programs listed here to ensure your directory
and file structure is as you want it to be for your source files, and
THEN using this program to "make it so" for the target. Karen's
Replicator makes exact copies of folders and files without using any
compression. With this program, you spend some time telling it what
you'll want it to do, and from then on it will do it all for you
without you having to do further work. This is a very nice, simple to
use, network aware program with only two drawbacks that I can find. It
won't delete the source files after copying to the target directory,
so you'll have to do this manually or have some other program clean
those up for you if you don't keep them. And what I dislike most about
it is that it wants to run on a schedule. I haven't yet figured out
how to completely stop it from doing that, but you can set it to run
once a year so it won't annoy you. Other than that, this program is
very informative, and I've run test after test with it and found it to
be trustworthy enough that I'll even enable its ability to delete from
target what you've chosen to delete from source. I wouldn't trust just
any program to do that. I use this program almost daily, and it has
never failed me.
HOME: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
DOWNLOAD: http://www.karenware.com/progs/ptreplicator-setup.exe
DOWNLOAD RUNTIME: http://www.karenware.com/progs/vbrun60-setup.exe
Matchmaker
This one is old and requires VBRun DLL's, which I didn't have handy. I
think I'll pass on trying it, although Karen Kenworthy's stuff is
always good. If she had a current version of this, I'd try it
immediately. If anybody tests this one out, I'd love to hear about it.
HOME: http://content.techweb.com/winmag/software/toolkit.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://img.cmpnet.com/windows/karen/download/pwmatch.zip
My Own Backup v2.1
This program uses your compression software to create zip files to
back up your folders. It supports recursed directories. Although this
software is clumsier and more involved than SipBak (my favorite
program of this sort, but repeatedly unreliable on WinXP, so sent to
the scrap heap here), it's a good replacement, and very reliable. With
this program, you can create backup sets which you can run
individually or all at once. You specify all details of each backup
set, making this a very versatile program. Basically you do all the
work once telling it what you want, and from then on the program does
all the work for you. I heartily recommend this software.
HOME: http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-42000/MOB/
Pablo Commander v1.31
This one is very similar to freeCommander, but instead of just showing
files that are missing, it also shows empty folders that are missing
from one side or the other of the dual pane comparison. It also shows
files that are different, but it does nothing special to let you know
they're different (you have to figure it out by manually looking to
see if the highlighted file is present on both sides). This program
doesn't have a built-in method for comparing files. You do, however,
have full Explorer access to the files, so you can either manually
examine them or run other software to do the comparisons. I like this
program better than freeCommander since it's not as powerful, and thus
can't do damage as easily as freeCommander could in the wrong hands.
No install is necessary. It remembers the last directories you had
open, and I don't see a way to change that, so if you don't want it to
do that, you'd probably have to browse to the root directory before
closing. The program isn't network aware, but can work with mapped
drives.
HOME: http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/commander.html
DOWNLOAD: http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/getfile.php?id=3
SynchronX
This seems like an older program, but is network aware. It has some
sort of animated banner ad at the bottom for other software, which is
annoying, so this one is not pure freeware, although the authors claim
it is. Selecting the two folders/drives for comparison is a bit
cumbersome, but once selected, it's fast at comparing them. It offers
single pane results that are color coded. Results are textual, but
very easy to understand. This program is for viewing comparisons only.
You do not get Explorer access to the files, or have any ability to
manipulate the files from within this program. You can exclude files
or extensions from the results pane if you wish. This program isn't
powerful enough for me to want to keep it around, but it's good for a
quick comparison.
HOME: http://www.clickteam.com/English/synchronx.php
DOWNLOAD: http://207.106.84.37/webftp/files/10/5/SynchronX_English.exe
TreeComp v3.7
I must be a total bubble-head, because I couldn't for the life of me
figure out quite how to work with the results of a scan with this
program. I'm sure it works for some people, but this one is totally
beyond me. I was looking for a dual paned comparison tool that showed
the differences between two directories in an easy to understand way.
HOME: http://www.xs4all.nl/~lploeger/TreeComp3.htm
WinMerge v2.2.2
This program is *very* slow on the network and rather slow on my local
computer. It's remarkably thorough in its comparison, but other
programs perform a similar (if, perhaps, not as thorough) job much
faster. It offers a single pane result screen with textual
descriptions of the similarities/differences. I find its thoroughness
to be a distraction in the results panel since I, personally, have no
interest in whether a file is binary or not in the results, and I find
all the binary entires very distracting. Synchronx will do what this
program does without the binary information, and much faster. This
program also will not let you know if one of the compared folders is
missing an empty subfolder that's present in the other one.
HOME: http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/
DOWNLOAD INSTALLER:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.2.2-Setup.exe
DOWNLOAD BINARY ZiP PACKAGE:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.2.2-exe.zip
WMatch v2.1
Although this software is similar in performance to Comparator, it
lacks many of Comparator's features. First of all, it hangs when I try
to run it over the network (NOT RESPONDING). I tried it with small and
large directories with and without subdirectories. It hung every time.
Also, when it does work (and it works flawlessly on one computer
without going over a network), it's cumbersome to work with the files.
You must place a checkmark next to any file you wish to work with
(which is good for security if you're the type of person to
accidentally do things and wish to be protected from accidental
clicks) before being able to work with them. And the only selections
it offers for working with them are copying and moving from source to
target (NOT the other way around) and deleting the file entirely (NOT
from source or target - just delete, which I assume means from both!).
It also runs much slower than Comparator.
HOME: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,485525,00.asp
DOWNLOAD: http://www.ist.sfcc.edu/class/CGS2564/Utilities/WMATCH.ZIP
I'm back after a couple of years' hiatus (Hey you guys, I missed
you!), and I thought I'd share my freeware experiences during that
time. I hunted around for folder/file comparison software to use over
my home network to make sure my networked backups are identical to the
copy on my computer (both computers run WinXP Pro and are connected by
a local hub). I've tried quite a few comparison programs, some backup
programs, and some dual pane file managers.
After doing all the testing, I came up with this method: I use
Comparator to verify the accuracy of the directory structure between
the backups on both of my computers. I then use My Own Backup to
create backup zip files of all the folders I care about on my drive. I
then test the zips (using my compression software) in the temporary
directory I sent them to. And, last but not least, I use Karen's
Replicator to copy them to my backup directory and to my other
computer over the local network. Once finished, I delete the contents
of the temporary directory. This system is fool-proof, works great for
me, and has proven very fast and reliable. Maybe it will work for
others as well.
Here are my reviews of 16 programs:
2xExplorer v1.4.1.12
This one is network aware and seems rather modern compared to many
I've tried. It is, however, a bit clumsy for me to use. It will take
me a while to become comfortable using it. No install is required, and
to remove, just delete its folder and one registry key (which the
author tells you where to find). It looks to me like comparing
subfolders must be done one at a time manually rather than all at once
automatically, which is my reason for not keeping it around. But I'm
sure it's a very nice program for things other than folder/file
comparison.
HOME: http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
DOWNLOAD: http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/34054.shtml
CmparEbi v.1.0
No install is needed for this one. It's not network aware, but it can
work with network drives if they're mapped. It's very slow, but
thorough. It has a dual pane display for visually (manually) comparing
folders and files, and a single pane display for results of its
automatic comparison. The main window of the program is small and
cannot be resized. If you use long filenames or have nested
subdirectories, the results will run off the screen and can't be
accessed. The only way to view them is to highlight them one by one
after checking the Show Hints button in the program's settings. More
than one instance of this program can be run at a time, making it
possible to do many comparisons at once. I'll keep it around for quick
looks at directory structure, but it won't be my main program for such
things.
HOME: http://homepages.borland.com/torry/util_filedrv.htm
DOWNLOAD:
http://homepages.borland.com/torry/apps/utilities/filedrv/comparebi.zip
Comparator v2.2
This is an excellent dual pane directory and file comparison tool.
It's fast, works well over a network with no noticeable lag, gives
full Explorer access to all files it finds, has tabbed dual pane
windows for Missing Files, Newer Files, and Duplicate Files, and
leaves it to you to decide what to do with the results. You are not
given Explorer access to the files, and you cannot view the contents
of, or run any of the files from within the program, but you can copy,
update and/or delete from one panel to another when discrepancies are
found. It can handle large jobs with multiple subdirectories, is easy
to work with and understand, and I've verified manually that it's
totally accurate in its determinations. The only thing I can find that
it won't do is let you know if one of your comparison folders has an
empty subfolder in it that's missing from the other. You can, however,
compare directory structure manually in the two small browsing windows
above the results window, and can make sure no folders are missing,
although having this done automatically would probably make this the
perfect comparison tool. This one is my favorite by far. I heartily
recommend it.
HOME: http://softbytelabs.com/Comparator/index.html
CompFold v1.4.1.19
No install is necessary for this program. This seems to be an older
program, but is network aware. It's quite powerful, so be careful (C
drive can be deleted quite easily using this program!). It has dual
screen display when showing the differences between folders/files, but
you need to learn the meaning of the text keys to understand what the
program is telling you. I like the File Differences tab. If there's a
difference between two files, you right-click on one of them and
select Show Differences. The File Differences tab automatically comes
to the forefront with a dual pane display of the two files. Each one
has blank space where anything is missing and red highlighted text if
something is in one that's not in the other. For quick text file
comparisons, this would be a nice program to keep around.
HOME: http://home.freeuk.net/mpescod/
DOWNLOAD: http://home.freeuk.net/mpescod/Downloads/CF141_19.zip
Directory Compare v2.53
This program provides a single pane display of results. I find it
cumbersome to use since the readout isn't immediately understandable,
but must be learned. This program does, however, let you know if
there's an empty subfolder in one of the compared folders, which is
rare in these comparison programs. This program is network aware and
runs fast. Explorer's functions are not available from within this
program, however you can define an action for the program to perform
if you double click a file.
HOME: http://tp.lc.ehu.es/jma/win95.html
DOWNLOAD: http://tp.lc.ehu.es/anonym/win95/drcmp253.exe
DualXplorer v1.01
No install is necessary for this program. It's not immediately network
aware, but can work with mapped drives, or can help you to map them
from within its menus. Full Explorer context menus are available from
within the program. Dual pane manual comparison of folders and
subfolders is possible, but I haven't found a way to just compare the
two and have the program highlight or in some way point out the
differences. Synchronizing the directories is available from the menu,
but I'm the type of person who'd like to see the differences for
myself rather than allowing a program to make the changes without my
knowing what they even are. For dual pane exploring, this is a nice
program you'll be at home in if you're at home in Explorer, but it's
not what I'm looking for in a comparison tool.
HOME: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/authors/a0004178.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/DualXplorer.zip
FmEdit98 v2.0
This is a dual pane file manager which recognizes networks. It takes a
moment to load the program, and it tries to go for my floppy drive
before settling on my C drive. I like the fact that there are small
browsing windows above each main window of the dual pane, making
navigation much faster and more accurate than other navigation
methods. With this program you can visually (manually) compare two
directories and their subdirectories and files, but it has no
comparison tool of its own. All Explorer functions are available from
within the program and it looks and feels much like Explorer. This one
is less clumsy feeling than DualXplorer. It also has a calendar and
calculator available at the touch of a button on the toolbar. This is
a fast, fun little program, but not as powerful as what I'm looking
for. It comes as a self-extracting zip file, and once installed it
instructs you to copy certain of its files to your system directory. I
didn't find it necessary to do that. The program doesn't remember the
last used directories, but it can save favorites for easy reloading.
HOME: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page5.html#FmEdit98
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.downloadcounter.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?username=321dl&account=20
freeCommander v2004.10b
This one isn't network aware, but can work with mapped drives. It's
fast at loading and has a dual pane display. You can easily open two
directories and compare them with a click of a button or from the top
menu. It shows which files are missing by highlighting them in each
pane, but it doesn't show which files are different from one another.
Therefore I wouldn't recommend just this program for verifying that
two directories are identical. You can save directory sets as
favorites. Once this program is installed, you can supposedly copy the
files within its folder to a floppy, a USB stick or a CD and use it
without installing on another computer. It remembers the last
comparison you did and loads that one back up after shutting it down.
There are a ton of options for customization, and it seems like a very
powerful program, but doesn't seem suited to comparisons.
HOME: http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://www.freecommander.com/fc_downl_en.htm
Karen's Replicator v2.2.3
This is a directory and file synchronization program. I recommend
using one of the other programs listed here to ensure your directory
and file structure is as you want it to be for your source files, and
THEN using this program to "make it so" for the target. Karen's
Replicator makes exact copies of folders and files without using any
compression. With this program, you spend some time telling it what
you'll want it to do, and from then on it will do it all for you
without you having to do further work. This is a very nice, simple to
use, network aware program with only two drawbacks that I can find. It
won't delete the source files after copying to the target directory,
so you'll have to do this manually or have some other program clean
those up for you if you don't keep them. And what I dislike most about
it is that it wants to run on a schedule. I haven't yet figured out
how to completely stop it from doing that, but you can set it to run
once a year so it won't annoy you. Other than that, this program is
very informative, and I've run test after test with it and found it to
be trustworthy enough that I'll even enable its ability to delete from
target what you've chosen to delete from source. I wouldn't trust just
any program to do that. I use this program almost daily, and it has
never failed me.
HOME: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
DOWNLOAD: http://www.karenware.com/progs/ptreplicator-setup.exe
DOWNLOAD RUNTIME: http://www.karenware.com/progs/vbrun60-setup.exe
Matchmaker
This one is old and requires VBRun DLL's, which I didn't have handy. I
think I'll pass on trying it, although Karen Kenworthy's stuff is
always good. If she had a current version of this, I'd try it
immediately. If anybody tests this one out, I'd love to hear about it.
HOME: http://content.techweb.com/winmag/software/toolkit.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://img.cmpnet.com/windows/karen/download/pwmatch.zip
My Own Backup v2.1
This program uses your compression software to create zip files to
back up your folders. It supports recursed directories. Although this
software is clumsier and more involved than SipBak (my favorite
program of this sort, but repeatedly unreliable on WinXP, so sent to
the scrap heap here), it's a good replacement, and very reliable. With
this program, you can create backup sets which you can run
individually or all at once. You specify all details of each backup
set, making this a very versatile program. Basically you do all the
work once telling it what you want, and from then on the program does
all the work for you. I heartily recommend this software.
HOME: http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-42000/MOB/
Pablo Commander v1.31
This one is very similar to freeCommander, but instead of just showing
files that are missing, it also shows empty folders that are missing
from one side or the other of the dual pane comparison. It also shows
files that are different, but it does nothing special to let you know
they're different (you have to figure it out by manually looking to
see if the highlighted file is present on both sides). This program
doesn't have a built-in method for comparing files. You do, however,
have full Explorer access to the files, so you can either manually
examine them or run other software to do the comparisons. I like this
program better than freeCommander since it's not as powerful, and thus
can't do damage as easily as freeCommander could in the wrong hands.
No install is necessary. It remembers the last directories you had
open, and I don't see a way to change that, so if you don't want it to
do that, you'd probably have to browse to the root directory before
closing. The program isn't network aware, but can work with mapped
drives.
HOME: http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/commander.html
DOWNLOAD: http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/getfile.php?id=3
SynchronX
This seems like an older program, but is network aware. It has some
sort of animated banner ad at the bottom for other software, which is
annoying, so this one is not pure freeware, although the authors claim
it is. Selecting the two folders/drives for comparison is a bit
cumbersome, but once selected, it's fast at comparing them. It offers
single pane results that are color coded. Results are textual, but
very easy to understand. This program is for viewing comparisons only.
You do not get Explorer access to the files, or have any ability to
manipulate the files from within this program. You can exclude files
or extensions from the results pane if you wish. This program isn't
powerful enough for me to want to keep it around, but it's good for a
quick comparison.
HOME: http://www.clickteam.com/English/synchronx.php
DOWNLOAD: http://207.106.84.37/webftp/files/10/5/SynchronX_English.exe
TreeComp v3.7
I must be a total bubble-head, because I couldn't for the life of me
figure out quite how to work with the results of a scan with this
program. I'm sure it works for some people, but this one is totally
beyond me. I was looking for a dual paned comparison tool that showed
the differences between two directories in an easy to understand way.
HOME: http://www.xs4all.nl/~lploeger/TreeComp3.htm
WinMerge v2.2.2
This program is *very* slow on the network and rather slow on my local
computer. It's remarkably thorough in its comparison, but other
programs perform a similar (if, perhaps, not as thorough) job much
faster. It offers a single pane result screen with textual
descriptions of the similarities/differences. I find its thoroughness
to be a distraction in the results panel since I, personally, have no
interest in whether a file is binary or not in the results, and I find
all the binary entires very distracting. Synchronx will do what this
program does without the binary information, and much faster. This
program also will not let you know if one of the compared folders is
missing an empty subfolder that's present in the other one.
HOME: http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/
DOWNLOAD INSTALLER:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.2.2-Setup.exe
DOWNLOAD BINARY ZiP PACKAGE:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.2.2-exe.zip
WMatch v2.1
Although this software is similar in performance to Comparator, it
lacks many of Comparator's features. First of all, it hangs when I try
to run it over the network (NOT RESPONDING). I tried it with small and
large directories with and without subdirectories. It hung every time.
Also, when it does work (and it works flawlessly on one computer
without going over a network), it's cumbersome to work with the files.
You must place a checkmark next to any file you wish to work with
(which is good for security if you're the type of person to
accidentally do things and wish to be protected from accidental
clicks) before being able to work with them. And the only selections
it offers for working with them are copying and moving from source to
target (NOT the other way around) and deleting the file entirely (NOT
from source or target - just delete, which I assume means from both!).
It also runs much slower than Comparator.
HOME: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,485525,00.asp
DOWNLOAD: http://www.ist.sfcc.edu/class/CGS2564/Utilities/WMATCH.ZIP
