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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.
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Compare folders and files with created time + nanoseconds (NTFS only) #666

Open dfv54gdmsnsecfzsmfwhermkml opened 3 years ago

dfv54gdmsnsecfzsmfwhermkml commented 3 years ago

It would be good if the user in addition to modified date also created time is displayed in WinMerge, if the created time is different. Currently it works only for modified date.

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These options (Compare method) are still missing:

Here as additional options (on/off): Also compare milliseconds and nanoseconds (NTFS only) Note: NTFS stores an accuracy of 100 nanoseconds

The default behavior of the Windows system is known to set the creation time illogically very often, and it happens very often that the creation time is later than the modified date. An example is if you create a .txt file today and 1 day later you use Windows Explorer to copy this .txt file to an external hard drive. then the copied .txt file has a different creation time and this is the transfer time and not the one from the source. This is also the reason why I don't use Windows Explorer and prefer to use robocopy (GUI).

ghost commented 3 years ago

I think it should also be added access date, because Windows 10 Explorer can displays in list view for directories and files.

Then all 3 timestamps are supported. Which Windows itself supports for years (Date created, Date modified and Date accessed).

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