UltraCompare Power Tips

This is the index page for UltraCompare power tips.

  • Compare text snippets A tutorial showing you how to compare text snippets without having to save your snippets into a file. Diff your snippets, merge your changes, save the result as a separate file, then clear out the snippets (and their temp files…)
  • Compare .zip, .rar., and .jar Archives A guide on utilizing UltraCompare’s archive compare feature. UltraCompare is included with UltraEdit and UEStudio. Free full-feature 30 day trial.
  • Compare large files Compare huge files with UltraCompare. It’s included with UltraEdit and UEStudio. Here, we walk through configurations to compare large files.
  • Increase your virtual memory Large file comparisons may require your system to use virtual memory. This tutorial shows you how to configure Windows to increase the amount of virtual memory on your system.
  • Visually inspect HTML code How to use UltraCompare Professional’s integrated browser view to visually compare and inspect HTML code
  • Version Control Comparison UltraCompare v6.40 includes major improvements to the command line support that allow greater flexibility when integrating with other applications. If you’re using version control in a team development environment, then UltraCompare v6.40 is exactly…
  • Compare directories using FTP/SFTP Configure FTP/SFTP accounts in UltraCompare Professional to backup or sync FTP directories and compare local and remote folders.
  • Block and line mode merge Merge differences and save them between 2 or 3 files at the click of a button
  • Sync files and folders with Folder Synchronization Folder Synchronization is a powerful feature in UltraCompare which allows you to sync files between local, remote, network, and even FTP folders.
  • Recursive compare Use recursive compare to evaluate subdirectories’ content for differences
  • Find and eliminate duplicate files Unnecessary and unwanted duplicate files can eat up valuable system disk space. This power tip will show you how to quickly and safely eliminate unwanted duplicate files from your system with the powerful Find Duplicates feature in UltraCompare
  • Compare Word documents Compare multiple Microsoft Word documents – Identify and merge differences between Word documents.
  • Command line tips Tips for running UltraCompare from a DOS command prompt
  • Command line quick difference check Run a quick difference check between two files to quickly see if they’re the same or different
  • Ignore/compare column range Set parameters to ignore or compare up to 4 unique columns of data.
  • Filtering files in folder mode Filtering files in UltraCompare while in folder mode
  • Customizing the time/date format for folder comparison Many UltraCompare users in different regions of the world have different standard formats for dates and timestamps. UltraCompare provides the ability to customize the date and timestamp for your folder comparisons
  • Editing files in UltraCompare How to use the integrated text editing capabilites within UltraCompare
  • UltraCompare shell integration Tips for integrating UltraCompare into the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer
  • Export/save text compare output How to export and save diff output from UltraCompare. UltraCompare is included with UltraEdit and UEStudio. Free full-feature 30 day trial.
  • Web Compare If you work with web files, you are probably accustomed to downloading the file via FTP or viewing the source, saving the text, then doing a compare. We’re sure you’ll agree, this process is clunky and mechanical….
  • Manually Sync Your Compare Manually sync your compare lines
  • Reload previously active sessions When you’re doing complex file and folder compare operations, it doesn’t take long to open quite a few tabs. What happens when you close UC to move on to another task or to go home for the day- lose the session? Not with Reload active sessions…
  • Session Manager If you’ve compared the same set of files/folders more than once… You need sessions. Sessions allow you to save compare options for a common set of files or folders which you can quickly recall anytime you open UltraCompare. Not only can you save…
  • Workspace Manager The Workspace Manager is all about convenience, so the Explorer view allows you to drag/drop files and folders for quick and easy compare operations. Simply select the folder (or file) in the Explorer view and drag it to the compare frame.
  • Bookmark Favorite Files/Folders in UltraCompare How to use Favorite in UltraCompare to bookmark your commonly used files/folders.
  • FTP in Workspace Manager You can access your accounts through the Explorer tab of the Workspace Manager in UltraCompare
  • Share FTP Accounts with UltraEdit/UEStudio Set up UltraEdit/UEStudio to share FTP accounts with UltraCompare
  • FTP Folder Compare with CRC Have you wanted to do a quick folder compare – between a local directory and remote directory – without downloading the files first? No problem… As of v7.20, UltraCompare now supports an FTP CRC compare method. With the CRC compare feature…
  • Mark and hide files and folders in folder compare Have you ever wanted to hide files/folders that aren’t relevant for your immediate compare needs? We have… While UltraCompare offers many compare filters and ignore options, sometimes you just need more control…