Suggestion: Compare Folders vs A file listing dirs

[darkstone]

Hello,

As far as I have a removable hard disk unit in my PC, sometimes I need to compare contents from two of my removable hard disks. It would be very useful if I could compare:

1) the folders in the currently installed hard disk,

2) and a text file listing the directories of the previous installed hard disk, generated in the command prompt (in WindowsXP):
dir *.* /s > myfile.txt.

I've tried to compare 2 files of listed dirs but there are too many differences to create the proper rules. It would be easy to have a parser of listed text dir reports integrated in BC (comparison not editable, of course!).

Thanks,
DS

P.D: Any suggestions to help me to solve my problem are welcome!

[jdmarch]

Hi DS,

BC can do even better than what you are requesting. Look up "snapshot" in BC help. Here are a few excerpts:

"...the Save Snapshot command saves a read-only listing of the specified folder, and all of its subfolders, including each file's timestamp, size, and file attributes... Snapshot files can be loaded at a later date and compared to a live folder. You can load a snapshot just like any other base folder... If CRCs of the files are saved, then CRC comparisons can be used to determine whether the contents of files have changed."

[darkstone]

WONDERFUL!

Thank you and thanks to BC! -> I LIKE THIS TOOL!