Here is the situation... you have a collection of data such as photos or mp3's on your computer, you copy them to another computer. Time goes by and some get deleted, some get added to both copies. Now it comes time to sort them out - what's new, whats missing, what needs copied?!
This software will help you manage your digital assets by comparing directories and telling you what files are common between them (union), what files are unique (exclusion) and search for files by partial name match.
Once the data is indexed, you can perform many operations based on comparing two directory trees.
Dec 15 2010 : Version 0.2 : Updated to fix file comparison bug and display file size/md5 data
Dec 31 2010 : Version 0.3 : Added browser, fixed some minor bugs
If you download this software and use it, please let me know what you think of it, particularly any constructive feedback is very welcome! Contact Me
Instructions:
The way it works is you tell it about a number of "roots", which could be folders on a drive, or whole drives themselves. You add them by clicking on "Add".
Once you have added a few roots you can click "Build" and it will index the files on those folder, which could take quite a while.
To search for files by name, click on "search" and type in the name of the file you are looking for - search is by case-insensitive partial match
To compare two roots and find files are are common between them, click on Union and select the two folders from the dropdown at the top. On the left it will show you a tree of files that exist in the right. If you click on a file it will list on the right the copies.
To compare two roots and find files that are unique between them, click on Exclusion and select the two roots from the dropdown at top of the exclusion window. Two trees are shown that list the files that are unique on each side. If a file exists in one root (any directory) and not in the other, it will be added to the tree that is displayed.
Double click on a file to open it in windows explorer.
If you hit file->saveAs you can save the index data in a file and reload it at a later date.
