Folder Synchronization/comparison

darkfoon

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I am working on a friend's computer and I backed up several of his important folders to my file server running SaMBa.
However, just to be certain, I want to double check that all the files copied correctly and that even the hidden folders/files were copied.

Every application I've tried so far (Explorer XP, foldersync, etc...) either are too much work or too cumbersome to give me usable results. They either require me to go into every subfolder and check that the files are the same (with 47,000 folders, that's too big of a manual task), or they show me so many results in a mouse-wheel-scrollable interface that I can't make it through the list.

I'm looking for a program that will recursively check the contents of two folders (one remote and one local) to make sure that the contents are the same, and if they differ, show me which files differ, and what differs (date, size, CRC checksum, etc.)

Does such an application exist?

Thank you for your time. This has been driving me mad.
 

Fardringle

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Microsoft's SyncToy power tool will make sure the folders are synchronized. It won't give you a report of the missing files, but it will automatically copy anything that is missing or different.
 

zenguy

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Never used SynchToy and it is likely easier.

I've used RoboCopy from MS for quite a while to keep stuff synched.
 

darkfoon

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there is a free version available
Free is good. I rather prefer free.

SyncToy looks good, but I haven't tried it yet.

Any other ideas/candidates, preferably free?

Thank you all for your responses so far.