FTP compare ?

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FTP compare ?

Postby jasonic » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:17 am

Hi

Just installed UltraCompare and trying to compare folders on my local drive against my website via FTP .

How does this work please ?
If not available, can you suggest an app which does this nicely.


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Re: FTP compare ?

Postby dipetersen » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:45 pm

I just upgraded to v. 4.10a because it had an ftp option. Now that I have it installed, I can open a file from an FTP site but I can't figure out how to compare the FTP site to a local folder. A search through the help file didn't turn up anything either.

Would be nice to hear something from the developers on this subject. I see your original post is over 1 month old!
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Re: FTP compare ?

Postby sqlabc » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:44 pm

I've also just upgraded to 4.10a thinking it can compare local and FTP directories. Seems it will only compare local and FTP files one at a time. I'm VERY DISSAPOINTED because this is such a common requirement. I should have installed the trial first.

For those interested in a tool that does it right ... http://www.scootersoftware.com

They've had a good review in the Nov 2006 MSDN magazine.

PLEASE IDM !!! ... fix this for us.
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Re: FTP compare ?

Postby dipetersen » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:50 pm

I was wondering if the developers ever monitored these forums. It would be nice to hear from the developers if the FTP directory compare is part of the development roadmap.

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Re: FTP compare ?

Postby Mofi » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:48 am

No, the IDM developers are not monitoring the user forums. Read the 3 paragraphs at top of the page.

I personally use the file manager Total Commander with its built-in FTP client and synchronize directory feature for comparing local and FTP files. It can even compare/synchronize between FTP and FTP. In my point of view and usage UltraCompare is for file comparing and folder comparing is the job of a file manager which gives me also the possibility to rename or delete files and change the permissions /attributes of files and directories.
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Re: FTP compare ?

Postby kenlyle » Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:51 pm

Thanks for the tip, Mofi.

I installed and spent some time with Total Commander.

I found that it doesn't do FTP to FTP syncs, which someone in this thread seemed to want.

The FTP to local sync, and the time/datestamp issue workarounds are pretty impressive.

Thanks for the tip, Mofi.

I am still looking for something that will generate a "patch set" from the diffs between two versions, so that the "patch set" can be applied to a future version of the same base. Ideally, this would be recursive through subdirectories, like in my OSCommerce scenario.

Do you know of any tool like that?

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