Find the differences in two Huge folders on a windows 10 system.


  1. Posts : 232
    Win 10 Ver 1903
       #1

    Find the differences in two Huge folders on a windows 10 system.


    The best I can describe the problem: Folder B should be an exact duplicate of Folder A. But a check of each shows that B is about .3 TB larger than A. One is 1.43 TB the other 1.73 TB. I need a way to quickly find out why. Both A and B contain the same number of 2nd level folders so it is something deeper. Until I know what, it is possible that B has some files or folders that need to be added to A. I don't want to use an automated process that would make that choice for me
    A program that could quickly list Only the folders that don't match showing files and folder sizes would be perfect. Does anyone have any suggestions? I know I have seen many over the years but none come to mind right away.
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  2. Posts : 15,485
    Windows10
       #2

    From admin command prompt

    dir C:\afolder /b /s > c:\afolder\adir.dat

    dir C:\bfolder /b /s > c:\bfolder\bdir.dat

    Edit bdir.dat so all instances of "bfolder" read "afolder"

    fc c:\afolder\adir.dat c:\bfolder\bdir.dat > c:\afolder\fc.dat

    Change path and drives as appropriate.
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  3. Posts : 232
    Win 10 Ver 1903
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Argh!
    Command-line options ! Why didn't i think of the easy way I'm getting lazy in my years.
    i think i was hoping for a program that once it found the differences i could choose what to do with them from within the program. .3 TB is going to be a lot of moving something somewhere. The other possibility is that the files themselves might be duplicates. Whether dupes as in x.x(1) x.x(2) or otherwise i will wait to see.
    FC will show me what is in B that isn't in A. I agree and technically that is all i asked for. :)
    Thanks

    PS: Got a nice chuckle out of your tagline ..but not for the reason you might think :)
    I assume your reference is to as seen in that book?

    PPS: I forgot! Last time i tried to pull a dir of a folder containing hundreds of thousands of files to txt the file was HUGE! and took forever to create. It was so large it took a LONG time to open (or NEVER) in Notepad, Have to resort to other text editors of which i have a few. But you said DAT:
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  4. Posts : 2,935
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #4

    Total Commander's Synchronize Directories is also a good option. You can even compared by contents.
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  5. Posts : 706
    W10
       #5

    FreeFileSync will do the job.
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