Portable Beyond Compare 5.0.7.30840 (x64) Multilingual
Beyond Compare Portable is a powerful time-saving utility for comparing files and folders on your Windows system. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate copies of your data. Beyond Compare can create a snapshot of a live directory structure, and compare it against the live copy at a later date. Beyond Compare helps you analyze differences in detail and carefully reconcile them. It commands a wide range of file and text operations, as well as script commands for automating tasks.
Easy deployment and usage
Going through the setup process only takes a little time, with no difficulties or potentially unwanted offers. The user interface put at your disposal gets you quickly up and running due to its clever design. You can simultaneously work with multiple sessions. You can choose to have them opened either in separate tabs or individual windows, to suit your liking.
Compare multiple file formats
Such as the name suggests, the application comes equipped with various comparison tools packed into one. Choosing to run a new session unveils all possibilities, which range from but not limited to, folder, text, data, hex, MP3, picture, registry, as well as version comparison.
Depending on the operation you want to put in motion, a new tab or window is brought up with dedicated controls. Unfortunately, the application does not have a list of supported formats and you might end up with incompatible files.
Several customization options
The workspace is split into a fixed number of regions, for text differences being highlighted with different colors. Accessing the options menu lets you carefully configure, amongst others, colors to be used to highlight similarities or differences.
Keep folders up to date and synchronized
One of the features that perfectly blends in with comparison tools, is an integrated folder synchronization. The setup is completed easily, you only need to select target directories and set a rule. This can be configured to one of the available presets, or manually choose when and what happens to files that are different.
Expanded Session concept
Any comparison can be saved as a session, not just folder comparisons
Plug-ins are now built-in session types
Saved sessions can be organized in folders
Auto-saved sessions
Fully unicode enabled
Unicode filenames now supported as well as unicode file content
Interface Improvements
Tabbed interface for session views
Handy “home” view for launching and managing sessions
Layout of open sessions can be saved, restored
Built-in “Check for updates”
Folder compare features
Folder icons colors now match your preferences
Multiple operations can be queued
File actions now respect filters by default
Dedicated folder sync session
Touch and Attrib commands can now recurse through subfolders
Attrib supports Unix attributes
New Ignored command flags mismatched file as OK
New Move to Folder command
Flatten folders lets you compare differing folder structures
Pro only Alignment overrides
Text comparison features
Full in-pane editor with dynamic re-comparisons
Syntax highlighting
Adaptive gutter buttons for copying sections
Unlimited undo after save
Grammar-based comparison rules
Independent file formats for each side of the comparison
New Ignored command flags mismatched sections as OK
Multiple bookmarks
Hex display option for line details
Pro only 3-way text merge
Pro only Replacements
Improved FTP support
FTP profiles, selectable per session
Multiple simultaneous connections
Pro only Built-in support for secure FTP protocols (SFTP and FTP over SSL)
Other Significant Features
- Hex Compare supports in-line editing and wraps lines to fit the window.
- New View Patch command shows diff/patch files as a text comparison.
- HTML folder comparison reports can now embed links to file comparisons.
- Added option to align filenames with different extensions in folder compare.
- File operations can be paused in the folder compare.
- Added new text comparison algorithm choice based on Bram Cohen’s Patience Diff.
- Improved appearance on high DPI (retina) displays.
Windows only
Windows only- Portable media devices such as cameras, MP3 players, and Android phones can be compared.
- 7-zip archives can be created or compared, and many other archive types have read-only support, including IMG/ISO disk images.
- Zipx archives can be compared, complete with PPMd, LZMA, and WavPack compression.
- Version Compare now compares the fixed PE header in addition to the version resource.
- Remote Windows servers can be loaded as base folders (e.g., \\server), allowing access to all of its shares.
Beyond Compare Portable Release Notes:
Notable Changes
- General stability and polish improvements.
Appearance
- Dark mode: Fixed contrast for border lines used for Table Compare grid and “current line” in various views.
File Views
- Fixed comparison thumbnail leaving column of garbage pixels on the right side.
Folder Compare
- Fixed crash when sorting large directories.
- Windows: Fixed some Windows 11 network shares being detected as Samba.
Picture Compare
- Windows: Fixed Full Screen (F11) positioning incorrectly.
Third Party Libraries
- Windows: Updated FlexCel to v7.24.0.
Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension
- Fixed shell extension menu icons being too large when shown from a DPI-unaware application running on a high DPI display.
- Fixed shell extension menu icons misaligning with other shell extensions when showing a folder’s context menu on Windows 7 under the Classic theme.
- Fixed shell extension “Merge” menu items staying visible if they’re turned on and then BC is registered using a Standard edition license.
- Fixed shell extension installation when
powershell.exeisn’t in the system%PATH%. - Reduced file sizes for the shell extension DLLs back down to what they were in 5.0.2.
Crashes
- Windows: Fixed “Tools > Options > Tweaks” crash when scrolling using the mouse wheel on Windows 7.
- Windows: Fixed crashes when opening Excel files with unexpected data.
