Portable Beyond Compare 5.1.0.31016 (x64) Multilingual
Beyond Compare Portable is a powerful time-saving utility for comparing files and folders on your Windows system. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate copies of your data. Beyond Compare can create a snapshot of a live directory structure, and compare it against the live copy at a later date. Beyond Compare helps you analyze differences in detail and carefully reconcile them. It commands a wide range of file and text operations, as well as script commands for automating tasks.
Easy deployment and usage
Going through the setup process only takes a little time, with no difficulties or potentially unwanted offers. The user interface put at your disposal gets you quickly up and running due to its clever design. You can simultaneously work with multiple sessions. You can choose to have them opened either in separate tabs or individual windows, to suit your liking.
Compare multiple file formats
Such as the name suggests, the application comes equipped with various comparison tools packed into one. Choosing to run a new session unveils all possibilities, which range from but not limited to, folder, text, data, hex, MP3, picture, registry, as well as version comparison.
Depending on the operation you want to put in motion, a new tab or window is brought up with dedicated controls. Unfortunately, the application does not have a list of supported formats and you might end up with incompatible files.
Several customization options
The workspace is split into a fixed number of regions, for text differences being highlighted with different colors. Accessing the options menu lets you carefully configure, amongst others, colors to be used to highlight similarities or differences.
Keep folders up to date and synchronized
One of the features that perfectly blends in with comparison tools, is an integrated folder synchronization. The setup is completed easily, you only need to select target directories and set a rule. This can be configured to one of the available presets, or manually choose when and what happens to files that are different.
Expanded Session concept
Any comparison can be saved as a session, not just folder comparisons
Plug-ins are now built-in session types
Saved sessions can be organized in folders
Auto-saved sessions
Fully unicode enabled
Unicode filenames now supported as well as unicode file content
Interface Improvements
Tabbed interface for session views
Handy “home” view for launching and managing sessions
Layout of open sessions can be saved, restored
Built-in “Check for updates”
Folder compare features
Folder icons colors now match your preferences
Multiple operations can be queued
File actions now respect filters by default
Dedicated folder sync session
Touch and Attrib commands can now recurse through subfolders
Attrib supports Unix attributes
New Ignored command flags mismatched file as OK
New Move to Folder command
Flatten folders lets you compare differing folder structures
Pro only Alignment overrides
Text comparison features
Full in-pane editor with dynamic re-comparisons
Syntax highlighting
Adaptive gutter buttons for copying sections
Unlimited undo after save
Grammar-based comparison rules
Independent file formats for each side of the comparison
New Ignored command flags mismatched sections as OK
Multiple bookmarks
Hex display option for line details
Pro only 3-way text merge
Pro only Replacements
Improved FTP support
FTP profiles, selectable per session
Multiple simultaneous connections
Pro only Built-in support for secure FTP protocols (SFTP and FTP over SSL)
Other Significant Features
- Hex Compare supports in-line editing and wraps lines to fit the window.
- New View Patch command shows diff/patch files as a text comparison.
- HTML folder comparison reports can now embed links to file comparisons.
- Added option to align filenames with different extensions in folder compare.
- File operations can be paused in the folder compare.
- Added new text comparison algorithm choice based on Bram Cohen’s Patience Diff.
- Improved appearance on high DPI (retina) displays.
Windows only
Windows only- Portable media devices such as cameras, MP3 players, and Android phones can be compared.
- 7-zip archives can be created or compared, and many other archive types have read-only support, including IMG/ISO disk images.
- Zipx archives can be compared, complete with PPMd, LZMA, and WavPack compression.
- Version Compare now compares the fixed PE header in addition to the version resource.
- Remote Windows servers can be loaded as base folders (e.g., \\server), allowing access to all of its shares.
Beyond Compare Portable Release Notes:
Notable Changes
- Re-added support for disjointed row selection to Table Compare.
- Improved Home View to make less common comparison types more discoverable.
- Various other enhancements and stability improvements.
Appearance
- Windows: Crosshatching used for missing lines and after the end of the file is now scaled on high DPI displays.
- Windows: Fixed Home View buttons in dark mode incorrectly drawing as pressed after starting a drag & drop.
- Windows: Fixed Home View buttons in dark mode not showing a focus rectangle.
File Views
- Fixed using the mouse wheel over the comparison thumbnail. If the thumbnail has “Allow Scrolling” enabled, it will scroll the thumbnail view. If not it will scroll the main comparison window.
- Fixed using the mouse wheel over the main comparison editor/grid scrollbars.
Home View
- All comparison types are now shown by default.
- Removed secondary page under the > button in favor of making favorited icons large and making the rest smaller and on a second row.
- Added “Text Edit” button.
Misc
- Fixed flickering hints on Session toolbar button’s dropdown window.
- Fixed view tab scroll buttons continuing to draw as hot when the mouse leaves the control.
- Showing long hints no longer adds a trailing ellipsis.
Table Compare
- Added support for disjointed row selection.
- Added “Next/Previous Difference Sheet” commands.
- Added “Select Sheet” submenu to sheet tab control’s context menu.
- “Unhide Column” list now includes columns hidden because of “Hide Same Columns”.
- Improved “File Info” regional handling.
- Removed maximum limit on column widths.
- Current cell is now drawn with a border rather than a fake selection.
- Editor status bar now includes current column as well as current row.
- Cells will now show a hint if they’re clipped by the right edge of the editor.
- Fixed comparison drawing incorrectly until it’s invalidated when performing a slow compare or using key columns.
- Fixed handling of really long rows.
- Fixed popup hint/tooltip for shortened header cells not showing entire text.
- Fixed moving into a cell to scroll to make the column fully visible.
- “Align With” will no longer trigger a horizontal scroll.
- Improved size/appearance of sheet tab control’s scroll buttons.
- Changed sheet tab’s scroll buttons to show colored arrows instead of a color spot when there are offscreen differences.
- Fixed popup hints for extremely long cells displaying worse than v4.
- Fixed Session Settings “Columns” and “Sheets” pages not scaling column widths when moving between monitors with different scale factors.
Text Views
- Gutter buttons now draw as hot when the mouse is over them even if they’re pressed. (e.g., Text Merge “Conflict” state)
Crashes
- Fixed Text Compare crash or incorrect comparison when comparing a file with a byte order mark to itself.
- Fixed Text Merge crash after pressing backspace when positioned at the beginning of a line immediately after a missing one.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when mouse dragging causes current row to change quickly.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when using “Hide Same Columns” with a row fully selected.