I expect that the Scooter team's initial response to this request will be negative. Nevertheless, please seriously consider this idea. I've thought about it many times and it would make BC3 so much easier to use.
In my environment, most folder compares must be CRC-based because other tools I work with do not preserve date/time stamps (Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server source control, for example.) However, I have other responsibilities that have me working with deep folder structures containing very large files that could be compared via date/time stamp...and my productivity plummets because it takes far too long for the default CRC compare to bring back the results of a recursive CRC compare.
It is too cumbersome to always have to go in and edit session rules whenever I need to change comparison criteria. Please consider adding a Compare drop-down menu to allow a user to easily change compare criteria on-the-fly:
Compare
Just like adding a "Flattened Folders" option to the View menu would be a useful shortcut to setting session rules, so would an easy-access compare menu. For fine-tuning (timezone considerations, etc.) the user would still need to go to the session rules dialog.
In my environment, most folder compares must be CRC-based because other tools I work with do not preserve date/time stamps (Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server source control, for example.) However, I have other responsibilities that have me working with deep folder structures containing very large files that could be compared via date/time stamp...and my productivity plummets because it takes far too long for the default CRC compare to bring back the results of a recursive CRC compare.
It is too cumbersome to always have to go in and edit session rules whenever I need to change comparison criteria. Please consider adding a Compare drop-down menu to allow a user to easily change compare criteria on-the-fly:
Compare
Timestamps (toggle)
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Contents
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Rules
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Rules
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System
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Read-only
System
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Read-only
Just like adding a "Flattened Folders" option to the View menu would be a useful shortcut to setting session rules, so would an easy-access compare menu. For fine-tuning (timezone considerations, etc.) the user would still need to go to the session rules dialog.
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