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BeyondCompare is a comparison tool for directories and text and some MS-Office files, giving a side by side view of differences between directories or differences in an individual file.

BeyondCompare is a comparison tool for directories and text and some MS-Office files, giving a side by side view of differences between directories or differences in an individual file.

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How to compare mp3, flac audio data in a file, ignoring header data (ID3 tag) etc.?

I've backed up some audio files up in 2 places and added ID3 tags into one backup but not the other, since time has passed my own memory has faded on whether the backups are actually the same, but now one has ID3 data and the other doesn't, basic…
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Beyond-compare wont ignore line-breaks?

I have this comparison : I want those line to be treated equal. but it showes me they are different. I already applied those settings : What am I doing wrong ?
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Configure Git to use Beyond Compare for image diff

Because we work with a number of sprites, the kind of specialised diff views provided by Beyond Compare would be ideal to see which one of 2 versions I'm after when conflicts arise. I've already configured Git to use Beyond Compare as my primary…
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How to configure BeyondCompare to mark newline differences as unimportant?

Newline additions in the middle of a line in BeyondCompare are marked as important. I want them to become unimportant. How to do that? Example: A: B:
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BeyondCompare doesn't ignore difference in line endings (DOS/UNIX)

I am using BeyondCompare 4 on Windows 10 to compare two directories with thousands of files. They are the basically same, but one exported from Windows, and another one from Linux. The only difference is that Windows (DOS) uses CR/LF at the end of…
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Beyond Compare: how to compare all files shown in "folder compare" in separate tabs?

Usually when I perform "folder compare" in Beyond Compare, I would like to compare content of each file in separate tabs. If I do right click -> open (or double click) on a specific file, it indeed opens a new tab and compares the content of this…
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Auto-compare contents during folder compare without having to open files first?

I am using folder compare mode in Beyond Compare to view files with content differences in batch, but it seems that content differences aren't acquired until you open the file first. I understand the overhead of recursing through an entire folder…
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Running beyond compare 3 from mercurial

I need to run beyond compare using mercurial. I have tried this (in the .hgrc). [extensions] hgext.extdiff= [extdiff] cmd.vdiff = C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\bcomp.exe which works; but it causes the command (hg vdiff file_name.c) not…
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git difftool doesn't launch Beyond Compare from Powershell or command prompt

I'm trying to use Beyond Compare 3 as my diff tool with git. I configured git with the following commands: (source: Using Beyond Compare With Version Control Systems) git config --global diff.tool bc3 git config --global difftool.bc3.path…
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GUI Software To Compare Two Files, Get "Clean" Export of Differences?

Is there a way to do a "clean" export of the differences between files? Not a diff, or even a formatted report... just a clean .CSV/.XLS/etc export. This is for people that are non-technical; we have a number of nontechnical people in our company…
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Can Beyond Compare compare filenames whose extensions are different?

I have been tasked with maintaining a Nuget package for a project. In transferring the source files to the package, I need to append a ".pp" file extension to each file so that they can be transformed according to some variables within the file (pp…
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How do I encode a hyphen in a Bash terminal's open command?

I'm trying to write a small script that launches Beyond Compare when I do an svn diff. I got it working up until so far: open -a /Applications/Beyond\ Compare.app "$6" "$7" To get the full functionality, I need to add arguments with a hyphen (-,…
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How to compare files with partially matching file names? (tools/software?)

Is there a tool/software to do this? I use Beyond Compare and am advised that the regex features it provides might make this possible, but I've not seen a working solution yet. Background, I'm attempting to compare files with long names on a hard…
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Beyond Compare resync lines

I'm using Beyond Compare 4 Trial Mode to compare to .csv files. Many years ago I recall there was a command to resync the file comparison. One of my csv files has more lines to the other and I need to be able to manually pick match this line to…
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How to open a remote file in Notepad++, from Beyond Compare?

I am using the comparison tool Beyond Compare (BC) to review text files on a server. BC has a nice built-in editor but sometimes I want to open a specific remote file in Notepad++ (NPP) in order to do multi-line edits more easily. BC supports…
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