ignore differences in file when a file is old

[brett]

hey group!

i searched the forums, still can't quite figure out how to do this - hoping you guys will come through for me (again :^)

i've found the session timestamp filter - but the differences still appear in the folder/file listings - there is a color indicator on the old file - but i don't even want to see them

is there a way to not display differences when either file is older than a cutoff date?

thanks,
brett

ps. i've gotta just be overlooking this since i'm doing a pretty basic merge between 2 branches
if files differ
{
if source older than cutoff, then no action required
if target older than cutoff, then a simple copy works
if both files are more recent then cutoff, then i gotta merge them (this is the only thing i want to see)
}

[Chris]

If you set a date filter to exclude files older than a date, it will only hide a pair of files if they are both older than the exclusion date.

Example:

Filter out files older than 3/20/06

Pair of files with same name, Left file date: 3/19/06, right file date 3/21/06.

In this case, both files will be listed because the right side file isn't excluded by the filter. If both files were older, they would not be displayed.

There isn't a way to only display the files if they are both more recent than the cutoff. Separate date filtering for each side is on our wish list for a future version of Beyond Compare.

[brett]

okay - thanks - i love BC2!