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Beyond Compare

beyond-compare

A utility for comparing files and folders that helps you find and reconcile differences in source code, folders, images and data.

Detected by bcompare, bcomp | macOS, Linux, Windows |www.scootersoftware.com

Sync it beyond-compare.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Beyond Compare in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Application Support/Beyond Compare*/ Sync

· ~/.beyondcompare/ Sync

· ~/.config/bcompare*/ Sync

· %APPDATA%/Scooter Software/Beyond Compare */ Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/beyond-compare.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "beyond-compare"

name = "Beyond Compare"

homepage = "https://www.scootersoftware.com"

description = "A utility for comparing files and folders that helps you find and reconcile differences in source code, folders, images and data."

# The app icon, from the vendor's site.

icon = "https://www.scootersoftware.com/bc_icon.png"

detect = ["bcompare", "bcomp"]

# https://www.scootersoftware.com/v5help/where_settings_are_stored.html

# ("Where Settings are Stored on your Computer"): "Beyond Compare stores your

# sessions, customized file formats and other preferences as .xml files in its

# settings folder."

# Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 5

# macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Beyond Compare

# (renamed to "Beyond Compare 5" when several major versions coexist)

# Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bcompare, or ~/.config/bcompare when the variable

# is unset, or bcompare5 for a side-by-side install; ~/.beyondcompare

# for installs upgraded from an older release.

# The glob in each spelling is that optional major version.

# Three genuinely different places rather than one place under three names, so

# each is written out. The Linux one is [configHome] because the page says the

# program reads $XDG_CONFIG_HOME; on macOS and Windows that root would name a

# directory Beyond Compare never opens, and a consumer simply finds nothing

# there.

paths = [

"~/Library/Application Support/Beyond Compare*/",

"[configHome]/bcompare*/",

"~/.beyondcompare/",

"%APPDATA%/Scooter Software/Beyond Compare */",

]

exclude = []

# No file here is a credential end to end — the folder is sessions, file

# formats and display preferences. One caveat a consumer should scan for: an

# FTP profile's "Save password" option "weakly encrypt[s] your password and

# store[s] it along with other FTP profile settings"

# (https://www.scootersoftware.com/v5help/profileftplogin.html), so a saved

# remote-service password ends up inside those .xml files. This schema's

# `format` covers toml, yaml and json only, so there is no way to name that

# field here; it is left to the consumer's own content check.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: the settings are comparison rules, colours and saved

# sessions. Sessions do name absolute paths, but they are the body of a

# session file rather than lines in a settings file, and XML has no matcher

# here in any case.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/beyond-compare. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.