Folder Compare and Unimportant Differences

[CodyFyler]

Aaron, why is the folder report the only one that doesn't have the ignore unimportant option?

I don't want to have to load the gui first (so I can share a script with others) and set defaults or load a session.

A folder comparison that can't ignore the differences between for instance tabs and spaces is not very useful.

[Aaron]

Hello Cody,

Adding the Ignore Unimportant option is on our wishlist. In the meantime, you can apply the setting by loading a saved Folder Compare in script with the option enabled. The session could be called "IgnoreUnimportantEnabled". Then immediately load the pair of folders and the loaded session settings will be applied during that load:

load "IgnoreUnimportantEnabled"
load "C:\folder1" "c:\folder2"
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folder-report ...

By default, the script should ignore differences between tabs and spaces, so I would expect something else is going on here. Perhaps the file sizes are different, and the script is running a timestamp/size comparison instead of a rules-based comparison?

criteria rules-based
load "C:\folder1" "c:\folder2"
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folder-report ...