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After years of backups and copying massive directories from one computer to another, I have a right royal mess. Duplicate finder software and winmerge want to get down and dirty by exploring individual files. Given the scale of the problem the searches or scans take forever and present me with overwhelmingly long lists.
I want to compare folder names and directory structures. Once I have done that it would be quite easy to zoom in on several couples of folders to compare the files in and then I can decide what can be deleted, what can be deleted and what should be merged.
In winmerge, I cannot find out how to compare folder names only.
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You can begin a folder compare operation from either the WinMerge window or a Command Prompt window. Click File → Open. Use the Select Files or Folders dialog to specify the left and right folders to compare. By default, the compare includes all files in the folders, and is recursive (does include subfolders).
In the section displaying the detailed differences, scroll through the differences using WinMerge tools. In the section that allows you to select two specific files that you want to compare, select the two files, right-click, and then select Compare. WinMerge appears, displaying the results of the comparison.
I had the same problem today. For the speed you can change Edit -> Options -> Compare -> Folder -> menu compare method. I chose Size.
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