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Click on the “Select Files or Folders” tab in the far left, to start a new comparison. Each comparison you run opens in a new tab. To start a new comparison, click on the “Select Files or Folders” tab in the far left, change the targets and click “Compare” again.
On Windows 10, "fc" is a command-line tool that comes built-in to the system, and it allows you to compare two similar files to determine how they changed over time.
Yes, Treesize can compare folders and files. It is a tool mainly used to see storage space management.
If you can use a GUI tool, the best I tried is WinMerge - open source.
If not, then diff is your friend.
Beyond compare allows you to do that and much more.
It's one of those tools I can't live without.
Take a look here for a reference on the scripting options
You could also execute tree > tree.txt in both folders and then diff both tree.txt files with any file based diff tool (git diff).
As I am reluctant to install new programs into my machine, this PowerShell script (from Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog) helped me solve my problem. I only modified the path to suit my case:
$fso = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path F:\songs
$fsoBU = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path D:\songs
Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $fso -DifferenceObject $fsoBU
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