The often overlooked Xcode FileMerge app lets you spot what's changed between two files. Here's how to spot the differences using the tool. Most developers of Apple software are familiar with Apple's ...

Beyond Compare is a file compare and directory sync utility wrapped in one. Beyond Compare Standard edition ($30) is a powerful utility for tracking down differences between files and folders. Its ...

Here is a complete guide showing different methods to compare two folders on your Windows 11/10 PC. If you have two or more identical folders and want to find out the differences between the two, this ...

I am doing some backup and restore testing and was wondering if there was a good freeware app out there that would let me say "Compare \\server\restores_path To \\Production\Path" and show files that ...

In this post, we show you how to compare two identical images in Windows 11/10. If you have two identical images and you want to visually compare the differences between them, this post is for you. In ...

File Buddy 9.0b6: extensive desktop, file/folder editing and task tool. This release fixes a bug where the warning count setting in the Preferences window File List panel wasn?t being saved correctly.

The Linux comm command makes it easy to compare a couple text files and determine if they both contain the same lines -- whether the file contents are sorted or not. The comm command on Linux systems ...

If you have two similar Excel spreadsheets, or different versions of the same original spreadsheet, it can be useful to compare the Excel files and see how they differ. If the spreadsheets are short, ...

The diff, comm, cmp, and colordiff commands are among the many ways to compare text files on a Linux system. There are numerous ways to compare text files on a Linux system from the command line. This ...

Unix systems provide numerous ways to compare files. The most common way to verify that you have received or downloaded the proper file is to compute a checksum and compare it against one computed by ...

Editor’s Note: All this week, Macworld editors will report from the Macworld Expo show floor on meetings with Mac developers, new product announcements, and anything else that catches their eye. One ...

For years I’ve kept my music files in a folder called MP3s. I set up the same folder on my wife’s laptop, the idea being that she’d store her own music there. Recently I decided to have a single MP3 ...