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Show in three only changed items. A folder might include hundred files, and reviewing all of them is not necessary, especially if they were not modified.

And it doesn’t matter that “test.txt” on the left is in “Resources” folder and “test.txt” on the right is in “Res” folder. For example “test.txt” will be from the folder on the left and it will be compared with “test.txt” from the folder on the right. If you enable this option, then Compare Suite will search for files and will not take into an account their location.

Ignore folder level. Sometimes files are more important than their location.

Recuse into sub-folders. Let’s say you have the folder “Project” and inside you have “Resource 1,” “Resource 2,” … by checking “Recuse into sub-folders” you tell the program to scan not only the folder that you pointed to, but also can scan sub folders.

Go to the Tools > Options > “Folder comparison” to review the options available for folder comparison:

Start Compare Suite and select the “New folder comparison” command from “File” menu.

Select two folders on your desktop, right click onto them and select the “Compare with Compare Suite…” command.

Drag & drop two folders into the Compare Suite window.

You have several options to start the comparison of two folders:

For example, by taking the freshest versions of the files. Most likely you won’t stop at this, you will need to synchronize s folder’s content or remove duplicates. The point is that as in the case with individual files, with folders you can face a situation when you have two folders and you need to compare them against each other to see if they are equal files or files that were modified. You might have an active project version, a backup copy, or a copy from your colleague. One project is normally a folder with many files and sub-folders. Folders or in the language of the software engineers, directories, help to organize the files on the hard disk.