Comparing Selected Files

DeltaWalker integrates folder and file comparison windows in a way that makes possible and facilitates you in getting, all at once, the entire picture, as well as the specifics about areas of interest. This is made possible by presenting the ability to open and keep side-by-side the folder comparison window and one or more file comparison windows, as illustrated on the following screenshot:

Among other things, this empowers you to analyze the folder comparison results and launch file comparisons for files of interest to you —typically these are matching, but different files. It's difficult to overstate the importance of this from usability perspective —using the powerful file-system browser metaphor, you get to see both the forest and the trees. There is no need to switch windows nor to scroll tabs back and forth—it's all there, and it's all in context.

To select files for comparison

There are many ways you can select one of more pairs or triplets of files for comparison:

Folder Comparison context menu

 

To compare the selected files

Once you've selected the files you want to open file comparisons for, click on the Compare Selected menu or toolbar item.

Folder comparison local menu Compare Selected
Folder comparison toolbar button Compare Selected image
Folder comparison context menu Compare Selected

It's not uncommon, particularly when using one of the "Select..." actions described above, to instruct DeltaWalker to open too many files for comparison. Opening file comparison windows is a system resource consuming operations. To minimize the risk of overloading your system DeltaWalker limits the number of file comparison windows that can launched through the Compare Selected action to a predefined, but customizable number—20 by default.

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