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Dusty - 18/1/10 at 10:06 PM

I have a backup to an external hard drive that I made a year ago. Is there any way to view what has changed in archived folders in a superficial way. I don't want file details down to the last bit and byte. I want to see if all my old car build files are still on the master/current hard drive. Sure there are many new files, documents, pictures on the current hard drive but I suspect some of the archived stuff is no longer on the current/master hard drive.

[Edited on 18/1/10 by Dusty]

Doofus - 18/1/10 at 10:08 PM

Beyond Compare.

Brilliant bit of software
You can choose how to compare. From binary compare to just date or any combination.

Linky

30 day trial too


[Edited on 18/1/10 by Doofus]

Daddylonglegs - 19/1/10 at 03:32 PM

Not quite a comparing tool, but I use Total Commander (free version) which allows me to copy everything from one drive to another with several options such as 'overwrite all older' etc.

HTH

JB

iank - 19/1/10 at 04:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Doofus
Beyond Compare.

Brilliant bit of software
You can choose how to compare. From binary compare to just date or any combination.

Linky

30 day trial too


[Edited on 18/1/10 by Doofus]


+1 used it a lot in the past. Quite complex but very powerful.

Dusty - 20/1/10 at 12:58 AM

Thanks. Used Beyond Compare which has worked OK. Jobs probably unrealistic as there are about 3000 files missing in 30 folders and I don't need to copy all across. The tool is a bit too clever for what I hoped to do. Worried about all the orphans I didn't even know I had in the hard drive.

Big Stu - 20/1/10 at 10:25 AM

Try Synctoy 2 linky free from microsoft. Can set it up in several ways and I found it very useful for making backups and then updating both folders with name changes and deleted files.