ExamDiff Pro is a tool for comparing directories and files in an effective visual mode. It is designed for Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/2008.
With the user interface allowing two different directories/files to be seen simultaneously or one at a time, depending on changing needs, the utility will perform comparisons between the two. Directories from two separate locations that are different from one another will be highlighted in the two halves of the window and the .txt file of the differences that can be saved will make it easy for the identical directories from different locations to be found. It is a useful tool for finding unnecessary copies of the same file/directory that are spread through the computer, occupying space that could be used for new items.
When it comes to comparing files, if you are editing and saving changes to them after having asked for the comparison to be made, you will be notified that modifications have been performed and asked if you wish to re-compare the files. You can make changes within files from the ExamDiff Pro utility, but with little control over what you are doing unless you are really good at it.
The utility allows to copy-paste, delete and rename operations to be performed. There are several "View", "Navigation", "Edit" and "Search" options and it will take time to get used to taking advantage of them. However the basic operations, such as copy-pasting (using the menu or the drag-and-drop method) and comparing are not complicated to execute.
All in all, it is quite a complex program, allowing for basic operations related to managing your computer files to be performed easily and for other more complicated actions to be carried through if you take time to understand the various options available.
v8.0 [Aug 13, 2015]
New: Ability to group directory comparison items
New: Allow to Go Up One Level/Drill Down in directory comparison without
re-comparison (using cached diff results)
New: Ability to use Left/Center/Right blocks by default if a conflict
occurs during merging (Master edition)
New: Command line option /statsonly to output only comparison statistics
New: Automatically save/restore manual synchronization links
New: Ability to customize file/directory captions
New: Allow using Windows environment variables in Options paths
New: Option to convert new tabs to spaces during text file editing
New: Ability to customize print report heading via Page Setup (including
making it blank)
New: Option to force comparisons from Windows Explorer context menu with
the older/newer file/directory as first
New: Ability to apply ignored line and column ranges only to the first or
to the second file using 1: or 2: prefixes, e.g. 1:1-6 (by default ranges
apply to both files)
New: "Merge Matched" and "Merge Selected" commands in the Advanced
sub-menu of the directory comparison views context menu (Master edition)
New: Command line options /dt1:name, /dt2:name, /dt3:name to allow
replacing "Theirs", "Base", and "Yours" tags in merging (Master edition)
New: Windows 10 Support
Improvement: Improved performance of directory comparison
Improvement: Ability to toggle option "Ignore Linebreak styles" via
customized toolbar
Improvement: Added more file attributes to the supported ones (RHSA) in
directory comparison views
Improvement: Manual synchronization links are now saved per session and
also saved into session files
Improvement: Bookmarks are now preserved during re-comparison
Improvement: Improved support for Wine 1.8
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