Introduction to how to set up Beyond Compare to automatically compare file contents

For file comparison tools, manually comparing file contents is tedious and error-prone. To solve this problem, Beyond Compare provides the function of automatically comparing file contents. In this article, PHP editor Strawberry will introduce how to set up automatic comparison of file contents to help you complete the file comparison task easily and efficiently.

As shown in the picture, when opening a folder, there is no automatic comparison of file contents. You need to compare the file contents under the folder, click the button in the blue box again, and select a folder to compare the text content.

This is because the new version of Beyond Compare 4 does not have a comparison item set by default. You can set the comparison item according to the following steps.

Open Beyond Compare, select [Folder Compare] on the left, and click the [Edit Default] button on the right interface to change the default settings for Beyond Compare folder comparison.

In the opened folder comparison settings dialog box, check [Compare Content] under Comparison, and select [Binary Comparison] in this directory,

After the settings are completed, click the [Save] button to complete the folder comparison default settings. Open the folder that needs to be compared in a folder comparison session, and the file contents under the folder will be automatically compared, as shown in the figure, and the file differences will be displayed in the middle.

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