Diff Commander

• General features

• How to use

• Versions history

Diff Commander 2.60 (build 0500)

• improvements and bugs fixing;

Diff Commander 2.60 (build 0410)

• incorrect mouse wheel processing for some specific mouse devices;

Diff Commander 2.60 (build 0406)

• support of SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) - FTP access to remote files over SSH. It is experemental without proxy support and keys authentication (only "login/password" authentication possible at the moment);
• "keep alive connection" option for FTP/FTPS and SFTP;
• FTP-log window added;
• support of archive files in 7z format (.7z) and archives with XZ, BZIP2, GZIP and TAR extensions in read/write mode;
• support of password protected archive files;
• support of many other compound formats in read only mode (ARJ, RAR, CAB, CHM, OCX, DLL, ISO, VHD, NSIS);
• creating of snap shots files now possible by active profile settings;

• the size of new generated snap shots files is reduced;
• bugs with access by FTP over SSL/TLS;
• errors with UNIX-time/FILE-time conversions on FTP;
• wrong view of attributes for FTP files;
• program termination after entering of wrong ftp port number;
• incorrect processing of special type of archives (.xz for example);

Diff Commander 2.40 (build 0281)

• completely redesigned profile manager;
• new session and session manager. The session - is a logical element, which consists of a profile and comparison pairs (folders, archives so on). You can add multiple comparison pairs per session. Moreover, you can initiate a process of comparison for several sessions at once. The batch mode now is obsolete and removed;
• total speed of scanning is increased;
• speed of comparison of big zip-archives is increased.

• reset of current column selection after check/uncheck of item;
• app crash if you try initiate "cancel" in batch or session mode during comparing;
• app crashing at choice attempt ftp connections from ftp context menu;
• files without the extension from/to FTP sites aren't copied;
• "Yes to all" and "No to all" confirmations for "Delete both" request not work properly;
• GDI resource leaks in a very complex directory structure, as result - app crash;
• problem with unicode file names in snapshots and zip archives;
• incorrect work with some types of zip-archves;
• reseting of all profiles and sessions after reinstalling.

Diff Commander 2.30 (build 0242)

• now Diff Commander compatible with Windows 7.

• new created folders is not visible in snapshots and zip archive after synchronization;
• forcible canceling of the scanning sometime raise a application exception;
• incorrect binary comparison and crc calculation of files that are bigger than 512MB or about it; files always shows them as "differing" but does not copy these files;
• illegal displaying of unicode/language specific characters in message boxes;
• application crashed, when you try copy/move some file to/from local network path;
• when content comparison is on, crc checksum code will be lock the file. Therefore some synchronize operations with this file will be failed;
• "Tools" menu after installation is empty;
• some information popups and context menus have invalid position on multimonitor systems;

Diff Commander 2.20 (build 0230)

• new created folders is not visible in snapshots and zip archive after synchronization;
• forcible canceling of the scanning sometime raise a application exception;
• incorrect binary comparison and crc calculation of files that are bigger than 512MB or about it;
• files always shows them as "differing" but does not copy these files;
• illegal displaying of unicode/language specific characters in message boxes;
• application crashed, when you try copy/move some file to/from local network path;
• external tools not created after installation;
• app cannot copy local file to Ftp server if destination folder not exist;

Diff Commander 2.0 (build 0216)

• compatibility with Windows Vista;

• full screen mode on multimonitor systems;
• time zones not present in ftp dialog settings (Windows Vista);
• app not use Windows themes on Windows Vista;

Diff Commander 2.0 (build 0209)

• FTP support;
• new synchronize modes:
  • "Mirror Left to Right";
  • "Mirror Right to Left";
  • "Update Left";
  • "Update Right";


• "Settings" dialog box added (font, colors and columns settings);
• progress status bar for synchronize process;
• canceling of long time operations;
• Profile dialog box improved;
• switch item action cyclically by "Ctrl+<Mouse Wheel>";
• empty folders processing (copy or delete, opional, see sync.mode settings);

• slow operations with zip archives;
• a number of minor bugs;

Diff Commander 1.10 (build 0075)

• The shapshot storage - current state of a folder in a special file. Now Diff Commander can create the folder snapshot, compare and synchronize it with other folder;
• the "swap pathes" command on "Comparison" toolbar;
• "copy left path to right" command on "Comparison" toolbar;
• "skip hidden folders" option in "Profile";

• a number of minor bugs;

Diff Commander 1.0 (build 0062)

• batch comparison;
• support synchronization of two zip arhives;
• support synchronization of a zip-arhive and a folder;
• keeping crc32 checksum for files in ADS (Advanced Data Stream) to speed up the binary content comparison next time (NTFS only);
• Full Screen mode has been added (see menu View->Full Screen);
• a number of notification messages transformed to the popup tool tips;
• Keyboard Map dialog. Now you can view all keyboard shortcuts in Diff Commander (see menu Help->Keyboard Map);
• "Ctrl+D" is a shortcut to open the recent list;

• unclosed file handle in the crc32 checksum function;
• a number of minor bugs;

• autosave of columns order;
• autosave of show/hide columns state;
• the extension column being hidden, the file extension is shown in the file name column;