comparison limitations

Hi...
My company is in need of comparing baseline folder and file structured (included in zip files). I am not seeing a way to compare a directories contents to another if you want to ignore the content & size of the files, and the datestamps.

To give a better understanding... we have a product that we ship out weekly... it is the same structure with the same files... but the content changes... so obviously binary comparison is out :).... If there is an easy way that I am missing to do this with Beyond Compare..please let me know...

-Jon

[Chris]

Are you just looking to see if files were added or deleted?

Uncheck all of the comparison criteria.
Select View|Display Filters|Only Orphans.

That should limit the display to files that don't exist on both sides.

That is close to what I'm dealing with,,but the problem im having is that I am comparing something like this..

FOLDERNAME1
== SUBFOLDER
=== zipfile
=== filenames

to

FOLDERNAME2
== SUBFOLDER
=== zipfile
=== filenames

It seems that the top level folder "FOLDERNAME1 & FOLDERNAME2" needs to be the same name for a folder comparison to work via FTP... I am comparing two different folder names with the same folder and files structures... and both folders are located on the same FTP site. Plus, i don't care about the content.. I only am concerned with verifying structure...

[Chris]

If you want them to match, you'll have to set FOLDERNAME1 and FOLDERNAME2 as the base folders. If you set a base folder below that, BC won't match them up.

Matching paths and file names that don't have identical structures using masks/regular expressions is on the wish list.