Mac utility that combines directory compare and file compare

Beyond Compare for Mac

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Beyond Compare for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    Beyond Compare 5.0.5 Build 30614 LATEST

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    Michael Reynolds

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.11 or later

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  • Author / Product

    Scooter Software, Inc. / External Link

  • Filename

    BCompareOSX-5.0.5.30614.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

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Beyond Compare for Mac allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore those you're not. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records.

Compare Files and Folders
You can compare entire drives and folders at high speed, checking just sizes and modified times. Or, thoroughly verify every file with byte-by-byte comparisons. FTP sites, cloud storage, and zip files are integrated seamlessly, and powerful filters allow you to limit what you see to only what you're interested in. Once you've found specific files you're interested in, Beyond Compare for macOS can intelligently pick the best way to compare and display them. Text files can be viewed and edited with syntax highlighting and comparison rules tweaked specifically for documents, source code, and HTML. The text contents of Microsoft Word .doc and Adobe .pdf files can also be compared but not edited. Data files, executables, binary data, and images all have dedicated viewers as well, so you always have a clear view of the changes.

3-Way Merge
Beyond Compare's merge view allows you to combine changes from two versions of a file or folder into a single output. Its intelligent approach allows you to quickly accept most changes while carefully examining conflicts. Color coding and section highlighting allow you to accept, reject, or combine changes, simply and easily. When merging files you can change any line in the output with the built-in syntax-highlighting editor. By using Beyond Compare's powerful file type support and ability to favor changes from one file, you can trivially accept many changes without even seeing them.

Synchronize Folders
The tool's intuitive Folder Sync interface lets you reconcile differences in your data automatically. You can efficiently update your laptop, backup your computer, or manage your website, and the app will handle all the details. You can copy to and from disks, FTP servers, and zip files, all using the same interface. Anything you don't want affected can be easily filtered out, and all of the powerful comparison techniques are available, making the backup as fast or robust as you need.

Note: 30 days trial version.

Also Available: Download Beyond Compare for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Notable Changes:
- Improved Table Compare user interface for column alignment
- SFTP profile's "Use aggressive uploads to OpenSSH servers" option is now turned off by default
- Windows: Explorer context menu's "Hide 'Select Left' if there is already a saved selection" option now only controls the Windows 11 top-level menu
- Updated third party libraries
- Various other fixes and improvements

Cloud Services:
- Fixed authentication errors when uploading/downloading from a OneDrive account

File Formats:
- Fixed conversion errors when loading files saved with MS Word 2010

FTP:
- Changed default for SFTP profile's "Use aggressive uploads to OpenSSH servers" option to be disabled by default since it can cause data corruption on some servers

Installer:
- Upgrading the shell extension no longer triggers the installer to ask for a reboot. Explorer will still use the old version until it's been restarted or logged out, and uninstalling BC then reinstalling still requires a reboot between them

Misc:
- macOS: Improved overly fast scrolling speed when scrolling using a touchpad or Magic Mouse
- macOS: Fixed file sizes displaying separators as ? depending on the regional settings
- macOS: File sizes will display separators at native grouping frequency instead of always using 3 digit groupings (e.g., India)
- Fixed sessions incorrectly prompting to save changes when changing things like display filters that should be saved automatically
- Session Settings dialog's Scope edit is now center aligned vertically with the [ Ok ] button

Table Compare:
- Added alignment mode combobox to Session Settings pages with choices of "Unaligned", "Align by left name", "Align by right name", and "Custom alignment". Replaces existing "Left file is source" and "Detect alignment" checkboxes
- Empty cells compared to missing cells is now considered an unimportant difference
- Changing alignment mode session setting updates "Left file" and "Right file" columns in grid
- Fixed column headers incorrectly sorting with the rest of the data
- Fixed footer tab control displaying extra "-" tabs when the session settings have sheet alignment customizations for sheets that don't exist
- Fixed comparisons with key columns that don't exist resulting in a random row alignment
- Fixed to show footer tab control when first sheets on each side are not aligned and files do not support sheets

Third Party Libraries:
- Updated 7-zip to 24.09
- Updated FastMM to v4.993+
- Windows: Updated FlexCel to v7.22.1
- Windows: Updated madExcept to v5.1.5
- Windows/macOS: Updated pdftotext to v4.05
- Updated SMWord to v1.50(b34)
- macOS: Updated LetsMove to v1.25

Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension:
- "Hide 'Select Left' if there is already a saved selection" option now only controls the Windows 11 top-level menu, so the "Show More Options" menu can still be used to change it after an incorrect selection
- When file system directories are selected, menu items will now appear higher in the Windows 10 and "Show More Options" menus, matching where they appear when files are selected
- Fixed support for "Compare Using" submenu translations
- Reduced cases where Windows 11 top-level menu will clip menu item captions
- Launching a compare will now clear saved paths for both file and folder selections

Crashes:
- macOS: Fixed startup crash

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