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WinMerge / winmerge

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
https://winmerge.org/
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Can it only compare file names? #1957

Open ZJDATY opened 1 year ago

ZJDATY commented 1 year ago

In two folders, one is a file with a jpg suffix and the other is a file with a png suffix. I want to compare missing files only by name.

sdottaka commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately, WinMerge does not have the ability to compare pairs of files with the same filename but different extensions. However, when comparing jpg and png files, there will always be a mismatch due to the different file formats. Also, since jpg files are a lossy compression method, they will not match png files as images.

ZJDATY commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately, WinMerge does not have the ability to compare pairs of files with the same filename but different extensions. However, when comparing jpg and png files, there will always be a mismatch due to the different file formats. Also, since jpg files are a lossy compression method, they will not match png files as images.

Okay, I think this is a useful feature. I am now changing the suffixes in both folders to png. I want to find out which files exist in one folder but do not exist in the other.