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yousseb / meld

Meld for macOS
https://yousseb.github.io/meld/
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No visual difference between differing folders #83

Open bachowny opened 5 years ago

bachowny commented 5 years ago

I'm trying to compare two folders with thousands of files and deep nesting, but Meld doesn't show me any indication of which folders are different. This unfortunately renders it unacceptable as a replacement for BeyondCompare for me. I do like the look and feel of Meld though and thought the feedback might be useful.

Oh and one other thing, with a large folder compare, Meld's feature of opening all the folders and treating orphan files on one side or the other as a file difference is impractical.

So in essence what I'm wanting to do is compare the folders and jump through it looking for files that are actually different. I can't see where those files are and I can't easily jump to them.

Hope this helps, and keep up the great work either way!

bachowny commented 5 years ago

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md1023 commented 5 years ago

You may have to wait until python processes the result. Python slowness is one of the reasons I've installed Linux on work Macbook.

jslvtr commented 5 years ago

Out of curiosity, would you expect the folder to also be blue or something to show that something inside the folder is different?

Meld expands folders which have differences and collapses those that don't, as its way of showing this.

bachowny commented 5 years ago

Yes I would expect that the folder show some indication of differences inside. The way that Meld expands the folders with differences was not useful when I have 10,000 files in 3,000 folders to compare.