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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.
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Smartphone folders refuse to open #433

Open DoomRater opened 4 years ago

DoomRater commented 4 years ago

The path to my smartphone's music folder is "This PC\Samsung Galaxy S8 active\Card\Music". Attempting to open this results in a "Folder Selection. File not found" message. I suspect there is something with the fact that the path name has multiple spaces and the smartphone folder is not assigned a drive letter. In fact, the smartphone's drives are not seen as disks in Disk Management, meaning I cannot assign them a drive letter.

sdottaka commented 4 years ago

Currently, I can't confirm it because it doesn't respond to my Smartphone via USB connection, but I think WinMerge can't handle the Smartphone directly for now.

You'll need to use a product like MTPdrive or install a WebDav server on your Smartphone and map the URL to the drive.

https://superuser.com/questions/1157661/how-to-mount-an-android-smartphone-as-a-drive-in-windows https://www.mtpdrive.com/index.html https://www.guidingtech.com/39472/map-android-drive-windows/

You may be able to compare by dragging and dropping the Smartphone folder from Explorer to WinMerge. However, if it works, it will automatically copy the files to the Temp directory and compare them.

Therefore, it is no different from copying files to a PC with Explorer and then comparing them.