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Needed: A superb Directory Compare App
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Hi all,
I've been using zsCompare for quite a while now (so long now that I cannot find an updated version) but only for small comparisons. Now I find that I need to compare my backups to boot drive. zsCompare exhausts its memory (perhaps in the middle of the night) when I run it overnight. Secondly, I've not found an update.
So, any suggestions for superior programs would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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I truly don't feel safe fiddling with Terminal. Isn't there an app with a safe/civilian/user-friendly GUI?
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PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz/1GB RAM/OS/X (10.4.11)
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You know, I should probably add this to TimeTracker sometime.
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Posting Junkie
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ls and diff?
What's unsafe about those terminal commands?
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I found this a few weeks ago, but haven't tested it yet: DiffMerge
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-HI-
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I was going to suggest FileMerge, too, but I ended up trying it first with a couple of Time Machine backups, and it just sat on "Initializing" for a really long time before I finally gave up and quit it. I don't think it's designed to handle directories of this size.
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rsync is the best CLI option I know of for doing this. We backup terrabytes of data with it daily, it can be used to simply determine different files by running in dry run (-n) mode. You can output the results to a text file by doing this:
rsync -aEvn /source/directory/ /destination/directory/ > differentfiles.txt
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Originally Posted by CharlesS 
I was going to suggest FileMerge, too, but I ended up trying it first with a couple of Time Machine backups, and it just sat on "Initializing" for a really long time before I finally gave up and quit it. I don't think it's designed to handle directories of this size.
Hee hee - you're probably right. I used it to compare two 400GB directories and while it worked, it did take almost two days to make the comparison on my Mac Pro 
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Have a look at ChronoSync. It may do just what you need.
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