

You'll get a very nice drill-down interface that will help you identify exactly where differences or similarities exist. And then you can use the other View options to show or hide files that are identical, files that have been modified, and/or files that are unique to one side or the other. You can probably use the "Date or Time Modified" compare method as opposed to Full Contents (not needed in typical cases and much slower), then enable Tree View mode. I use a free tool called WinMerge for this and other purposes all the time. You could mount both Differentials for browsing at the same time and then use a file/folder comparison application to show files that are unique to the newer backup. You could copy the lists from each backup out somewhere and run them through a program that will filter out entries common to both lists, and then review whatever is left from the list that came from the newer backup.Ģ. Reflect produces a "Files backed up" list for F&F backups. to be treated literally rather than as a regex operation.Not entirely within Reflect, no. is an escape code to allow the period/fullstop. ) ? if we've already found our match do we need to deal with any other characters? Settings: for this view, "also update session defaults", rules based compare, binary compare. But obviously, it is only as accurate as the modification dates. Compares only the modification dates on the files, so it is far faster than either of the contents methods. What I'd like is for the solutions offered here to be confirmed as working or not working and if working I'd like the steps taken because it is not clear to me, after doing as advised then what next am I supposed to do? Re-run the compare or what. This compare method is good for comparing files against backed up files.
