Recommend directory trackker?

[Hengist_Ludd]

Can anyone recommend a directory tracker, please? I mean something that
will take a snapshot of a directory now, then at a later date, compare it
with a new snapshot, and show what's changed. In particular I want it to
give a clean listing of new and/or changed files to be used for further
processes, which disqualifies 2BrightSparks' FingerPrint utility, good
though it is for other things. Ideally, LFNs are needed too, which
disqualifies certain old DOS programs.

I know, I know... I suppose I could make one by redirecting DIR to a
file, then using a DIFF utility... but does a neat solution already
exist?

 

[AvianFlux]

FileMap by BB(?): http://www.dogkennels.net/filemap/

 

[jmatt]

WinDiff
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=161&cat=014
http://www.grigsoft.com/download-windiff.htm

WinMerge
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

Files Compare Tool
http://www.script-debugger.com/download/

CSDiff
http://www.componentsoftware.com/products/csdiff/index.htm
http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10174220.html?tag=lst-0-2

Differential
http://www.teammukippe.com/homesite/index.php?styl=s0
ftp://ftp.teammukippe.com/differential.zip
Differential is an application, which provides users with the following
functionalities: - Comparing two directories and putting the difference
into another directory - Comparing two directories and putting the
difference into one big file - DLF - Creation of DIT file which
contains all the information read from one directory - Comparing DIT
against another directory and putting the difference into the third
directory - Decompression of DLF file into tree structure DLF contains
all the data, and should be treated as a library. DIT is : Difference
Information Table which contains all information about a file, but it
does not contain any of its content. Supported platforms: Windows
95/98/NT4/2000 Differential is a fully functional 32-bit application
and won't run in a 16-bit environment. No other special requirements
exist.

 

[jmatt]

CompFold
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=23&cat=008
http://home.freeuk.net/mpescod/

Diff
http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.1.tar.gz

KDiff3
http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/

Quick Compare
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=quickcompare

Side-by-Side
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=94&cat=008
http://www.galaxywebsitedesign.com/sideby/index.html

TreeComp
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lploeger/TreeComp3.htm

 

[Hengist_Ludd]

Over on DonationCoder.com someone suggested this:

Freeware Orphans, The Lost Freeware
"License: Freeware
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download size: 596 kB
Description:
Log Monitor is a files and directories monitoring tool. The program
periodically checks selected file's modification time and executes
external program if file's time was changed or not changed. For
directories it handles such events as files change, addition or removal.
Features:
- Several files can be monitored simultaneously, each file has its own
interval and is processing in the separate thread.
- List of files stores in the configuration file.
- Minimizes to System Tray.
- There is ability to pause monitoring of selected files. "Paused" state
can be stored in the configuration file.
- Works on the schedule, can check files and directories only during
selected time interval and days of week.
- Ability to pass changed/added file(s) information to the external
program via parameters."
http://www.freeware-guide.com/download/


Thanks, AvianFlux - and jmatt, that's a lot of diff utils, thanks, most of
which I didn't know about, but not on their own full directory trackers.