Add Folder Compare as an option for "Quick Compare"

[Aaron]

Thanks. It's still an item on our wishlist. Our wishlist is not currently scheduled development, but a place our developers go for ideas for future features and enhancements. For this specific behavior, one thing we are looking into is adding it as an item to the shell extension right-click menu instead of or in addition to the Quick Compare dialog. But our current development schedule is quite full, and it is unlikely this would be a feature we can tackle short-term.

[dgbear]

After further review I would very much like to see the feature "Compare Parent Folders option from the Quick Compare dialog".

While one can compare two (parent) folders using the option after initiating the comparison of two files.... this approach is not ideal.
It's clumsy and can be a pain if the two files in question are big or initiate a time-consuming comparison session.
It also opens extra tabs that have to be manually closed.

Thanks in advance for your consideration of changing the priority and adding this feature.

[dgbear]

Yes... that what I was looking for (but apparently missed it in the menu).

I withdraw my feature request... this meets my request.

Thanks for your excellent product!

[Aaron]

Hello,

If you've already launched into a file view, use the Session menu -> Compare Parent Folders to launch the compare of the parent folder locations.

[dgbear]

Yes.

Or... if you see another way to change from "file compare" to "folder compare" mode once you are in the file compare mode view.

[Aaron]

Hello,

So you need a Compare Parent Folders option from the Quick Compare dialog? Thanks for the feedback. I can add this idea to our customer wishlist.

[dgbear]

Add Folder Compare as a pull down option for "Quick Compare"

Example:
When you click on two files that compare the same in two different folders, Beyond Compare brings up the "Quick Compare" dialog box.
It shows the files are (for example) "Binary same" and provides a pulldown selection box to Text Compare, Data compare, etc.

In cleaning up duplicate files, I often find it useful to open the directories and perform a folder compare to see if there are other duplicate files in the same paths. To perform the folder compare one has to open two separate sessions of explorer and navigate to the parent folders and right click on each folder.

To better facilitate this folder search I am requesting "Folder Compare" be added to the Quick Compare pull down list.
The program would then open beyond compare for a folder view of the path associated with the two files when the "Open View" button is clicked.
(Another implement option would be to have add a "Compare Folders" button on the Quick Compare dialog box.)

Thanks in advance for you consideration.
Also - Just want to take the time to thank you for all your hard work in developing such a great and useful product!