Beyond Compare 4.2.10.23938

Sometimes, you need to make sure your files have been copied over correctly. This is incredibly useful in an office environment where you're constantly transferring files back and forth. What's useful in those situations is a quick program that's used to compare files and text. Beyond Compare is, as its title suggests, one of those comparison programs.

The program is a little overwhelming for newbies. The interface is most definitely not easy to understand. A number of buttons line above the two panes use labels that are completely alien at first glance. There's Home, Sessions, All, Diffs, Same, Structure, Minor, Rules, Expand, Collapse, Select, Files, Refresh, and Swap. There's a whole lot of buttons there that don't make sense, and each has enough functions that going in depth about each of them is going to use too many words to describe. Rest assured, though, it takes a lot of help when you need it. Going through the help contents will reveal a ton of subcategories that go in depth about each function.

Beyond Compare has two panes covering most of the window. You can drag any file and folder into each of these panes and use one of the various tools up above to compare them. You can also drag text files in and it will automatically open them. If there are any discrepancies between the two, it will automatically highlight them so you can correct them. If these are shared files on a server, it'll modify each copy at once.

If that sounds useful to you, try downloading Beyond Compare!

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