I've been wondering about a way to visually compare multiple folders & contents.
My want is a virtual container/folder that allows me to delete entries in the source folders, without them being physically present in the same physical dir.
I want to virtually merge to show all folders/files so I can weed out the duplicates &/or older versions.
Windows virtual folders (search) is restricted to files AFAIK, so the search result compares only contents as a 'virtual folder'.
I tried MC search with wildcards etc but results weren't 100% as the search terms pre-define what I see & I could easily skip an entry if my search template wasn't perfect.
What can be done if:-
Multiple folders of similar name with contents of similar names + different timestamps/versions & duplicates in nested folders e.g.<folder 1>
file1.abc
file2a.abc
file3.abc
\<folder 1.2>
file1.abc
file2a.abc
file3.abc
<folder 2>
file1c.abc
file2c.abc
file3a.abc
<folder 3>
file1b.abc
file2.abc
file3.abc
\<folder 3>
file1b.abc
file2.abc
file3.abc
I could just copy everything into a common folder, but that isn't fool-proof & uses up a lot of disk space.
I could make lists of dirs & then merge these to review contents - but time-consuming.
Can MC be made to do this?
Any ideas or tools that allow me to do this kind of thing? I haven't found a Comparison prog that does exactly what I want, great for specific file changes but for a fuzzy review of 5+ dirs & sub-dirs, not so much.
