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Now suppose for some reason that the "cd and\another\one" doesn't work - maybe the folder no longer exists or (if on a network share) is offline or something, anything. Now the del a/c/e commands will take effect on the previous folder. The "del a" and del c" commands won't matter because you ...

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It makes sense Jeremy. I think I'll leave it as it is without the line breaks so not give command prompt any excuses of unintended actions.

As for full paths, what you wrote makes a lot of sense too but with full paths, the information becomes cluster like and it becomes difficult for ...

Hay, I just had an idea, instead of replacing the trailing value ")" why not ad the starting value and replace with the expression "\n" in Notepad++ to insert an empty line above the folder path and it worked. Although, it replaced the cd c: so I had to replace the ":\" with another cd c:\ to get ...

The simpleat idea could be asking the editor to replace "C:\Windows\" with (CR-LF)"C:\Windows\", i.e. put the line break before the next path instead of at the (much more difficult to define) end of current block.
N.B. This is strongly editor dependent.


Thanks for the valuable input. The issue ...

The most difficult aspect here is that the line break I'm trying to add is above the folder path an not below.

What I meant was having a line break (en empty line between the folder paths and their files) likes this :

C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.8387_none_08e793bfa83a89b5\ (3)
msvcm90.dll
msvcp90.dll
msvcr90.dll

C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.windows ...

@JeremyNicoll

Voila!! Copy/pasting into a new file instead of creating a difference report solves both my issues. A million thanks.

One question, how can I insert line breaks between folders paths ?

I mean ignoring whatever in the first file, to be listed in the difference file. For example the difference file I pasted has "C:\temp\Mount\Users\Default\" folder listed twice because it appears in both files I'm comparing. Now if the difference report ignore the first file, whatever maybe in there ...

Comparing directories is not possible for two reasons. First, two images can't be mounted at once. Second, the file list to be compared is part of the revision and comes from much older version.

Do I have any other choice ? I was thinking, being so advanced program Examdiff is, isn't there ignore ...

The problem is that your files contain numbers in parentheses, e.g. (15), and this makes your two lines in question different.

Okay understood but what if I want to completely ignore the first file and only want the contents of the second file listed in the difference report ?

This lines are ...

Hi again,

Here's an example of a difference file I created.

1121c1115
< C:\temp\Mount\Users\Default\ (15)
---
> C:\temp\Mount\Users\Default\ (10)
1129,1133d1122
< ntuser.dat.LOG1
< ntuser.dat.LOG2
< NTUSER.DAT{fd2528e9-7130-11e4-80c1-a4badb27af85}.TM.blf
< NTUSER.DAT{fd2528e9-7130-11e4-80c1 ...

Okay so I compared two files and made a difference file from Reports.

Now I have two issues:
1-The difference report added numerical lines in between the filelists (where did they come from ? the files I compared had no numerical values in them)

2. The difference file contains the difference for ...

So far so good. I compared the files, created a text file with difference now I'm gonna have to figure out how to convert the paths for command prompt to understand and delete the files in one go.

Thank you for the help. Highly appreciated.

You should be able to achieve this by using command line with the /o option: https://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=htmlhelp/edp/command_line_options


That seems straight forward. Thanks!

Another question, how do I make file list of two directories and their sub-directories to begin with ? Then ...

Hello,

I have a small project but I'm not geeky enough to accomplish this on my own hence I need a little help.

I want to compare all the files in the two directories and their respective sub-directories, make a .txt file of the difference of excess files, ignoring the timestamps, to be able to ...