Is there an easier way to compare file folders?

Question

I'm still adjusting to find the best way to organize everything so bare with me. I go back and forth between 3 different computers, all of them using the same file folder with some basic files in them (business logos, templates etc).

I'm trying to back up each computer, and I've saved different files into that folder on each computer. So say the desktop will have new templates saved, but the laptop does not, but the laptop has the new logo design saved on it. (I know not organized at all!).

What I need to do is go through both folders and compare what they have the same and what they have different so I can merge them together without anything being deleted. Other than going through the folders file by file, is there a faster/better way to do this?

(I have this same problem at home with our photos on two different back up drives, and that is A LOT to go through).

Thanks!

Answer 1

As far as I remember, Compare Suite can compare folders and highlight the differences:

http://www.bolidesoft.com/compare-suite/

Answer 2

network the computers and file share or back up all to one external then run around all you PC's and get them all the same. I have 3 back up externals for tax purposes at one day or another they will be the same, but hard drive and 1 external are current and the others are 1 week apart from each other, I rotate them as you should?. So if a hard drive or even 2 fail the oldest back up is 2 weeks behind the hard drive?

Answer 3

ipconfig /all ipconfig dir thats all i've got have been given faith like typing :-) EDIT: command on the spot is the suitable term and that's for people who ought to somewhat so matters in a text cloth fabric based command shell than in a GUI, it is composed of create individual costs, refresh IP's, hit upon IP's and run examine disk.