In the Skew Tolerance box, the default value is 2000. Once you have the File Comparison Rules dialog open, go to the Alignment tab. In the Folder Viewer you can edit rules by selecting Tools | Options, going to the Rules section, then highlighting the rule you want to edit, and clicking the Edit button. To change the file comparison rules, select Tools | Edit Current Rules in the File Viewer.
BEYOND COMPARE SOFTWARE SERVER ESSENTIALS WINDOWS
This was on a Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz system with 512 megabytes of RAM running Windows XP. In a test comparing 500 MB file to a 700 MB file, with both files containing random text, using the default rules the compare ran over 2 hours and was stopped without completing.Īfter using the tweaks below, the same files compared in about 20 minutes. Tweaking your file comparison rules can make a big difference in the speed of comparing large files. Tips for Speeding Up Comparisons in the File Viewer The only way to deal with files that are too large for the Hex Viewer is to use a file splitter to break them up into manageable chunks. If you don't get the Aligning Bytes dialog when you load large files, and instead you get the Hex Viewer with two blank panes, the files are too large for the Hex Viewer to handle. The file size limit in the Hex Viewer is about 600 MB. The size limit may vary depending on the format of the files and how different the files are. The largest files we've successfully compared in the Data Viewer are about 900 MB.
The largest we've had users report comparing successfully are about 1 GB. The largest files we've successfully compared in the File Viewer are about 700 MB. Filename Filtersįilename filters are limited to a maximum of 65535 characters in the Folder Viewer.
BEYOND COMPARE SOFTWARE SERVER ESSENTIALS ZIP
The ZIP library we use does not support newer ZIP formats.Īlthough the ZIP specification allows for files up to 4GB, the library we use is limited to 64k files, files cannot contain files larger than 2 GB, and no ZIP can be larger than 2 GB. Version 2.4+ using the SmartFTP library supports files larger than 2 GB.Įarlier versions, and newer versions using the Indy 9 library are limited to files under 2 GB in size. Local Files Version 2.0įiles over that size will give the error message "Error copying filename: Invalid access to memory location" FTP Local Files in Version 2.1+įile size is only limited by the operating system and your hardware, with the exception of Rules-based comparison and File Reports.įor Rules-based comparison and File Reports, see the File Viewer size limits. We've successfully compared up to 700,000 files, and we've had reports of failure on a few million or more files. The capacity of Beyond Compare is limited by per-file memory overhead. Max File Size and Number of Files (V2) BC version 2 only Folder Viewer Number of Files
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