Compare Folders - 3.4

There is something similar built into OSX, but it just wouldn't solve my problem.

I had 3 iTunes libraries on internal and external drives. Some songs were in all three libraries. Some songs were in two of the libraries and some were in only one, but it could be any one of the three. Two of the libraries had hundreds of songs and the third had thousands. The thought of sorting out this chaos manually was a nightmare. Compare Folders to the rescue.

I decided to pick one as the master library and compare the two other libraries in turn. You can view duplicate, unique or similar items and so using the Copy To function you can soon get the chaos into order.

I could have done the same job with one of the synchronisation apps that I have, but the real benefit of Compare Folders is the way that what is happening is laid out so well.

Criticism? No family licence available. With soon to be 4 Macs in the house, this would have been a nice option.

I have a folder of Quark docs that my designers don't name with an extension and a folder of PDFs generated by my workflow system with the ,PDF extension.
Even though I uncheck the 'File Type' box all files are unique because of the extension on the name. If we're not checking file type the extension should be excluded from the comparison.

Apparently there's some sort of library or something it's looking for that doesn't come with the application's installer.

Not sure what the problem is - will reserve feedback until talking to developer. But I too had this program crash after 30,000+ files compared (using two folders with 6,000 files in each).

and most likely caused by just a couple of posts where some rabid user encountered a problem, and rather than contact the developer (or maintain his/her own system to "prevent" problems), came here to vent and give low rating, thereby bringing down the overall rating.

This app definitely deserves 5 stars; it does a wonderful job of giving very useful information relative to the contents of two folders you need to know about; it's fast, highly customizable in your desired "comparison" criteria, and presents results nicely with options to perform a number of desired actions on each item listed in the results, if so desired.

It took me a few minutes to get the "hang" of it, and, since my first comparison involved folders with nearly 10,000 files/folders in each of the two being compared, and the one folder had literally hundreds of "different" files due to a malfunction in a backup utility, I was unsure that the results were accurate or would be meaningful.

I soon discovered that this app was 100% accurate; I just had a really messed-up "second" folder that was one of the two being compared.

Anyway, I highly recommend this app, even if you're not exactly sure how often that you will use it; download it and buy it and I bet you'll find yourself using it quite often.

Also, currently, there is a "discount" deal on this app together with another utility from this developer; Drive Gauge, which gives you a nicely-presented display of one's drive's current usage/capacity in a percentage guage. Very well done, and just a nice little utility to have available whenever you might like to check status. Also, provides warnings when drives are getting close to full.

Both apps together for just $12.70 - that's worth it even if they DIDN'T work! ;-)

I "sort of missed" the special, due to my hastiness in trying to find a utiliy to compare folders and tried to get the discount on just the Compare Folders purchase; the transaction, needless to say, didn't work, after buying Compare Folders and resolving my issues, I went back to look at Drive Guage and think that I'm going to go ahead and buy it even though I won't get the discount. It's only $5, so...

Overall, a developer who produces nice applications and has a good philosophy about everything (go through the whole site if you have time); deserves our support.