How Do I Use Beyond Compare: Introduction to Beyon
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Forty things about Beyond Compare
Acknowledgements
Learn Beyond Compare in 5 Minutes
Quickstart: open two directories
Quickstart: open two files
Quickstart: move a file
Text Compare: understand the display
Downloads
Text Compare
How to use Beyond Compare for Text Compare
In Beyond Compare, what are unimportant differences?
Why no word-wrap ??
How to use Beyond Compare to confirm 100% replacement
Ignore Trivial Differences, Like Timestamps
Git
How to use Beyond Compare with Git
Do a roll-back to peek at your old code
Quickstart: Folder Merge
Why merge three folders?
Beyond Compare Three-Way Folder Merge Symbols Explained
How to compare two commits, both old, in Git
Git mergetool: merging three files.
How to recover an older version of your code with Git and Beyond Compare
Peeking under the hood at how Git does its thing
Getting better at Git
Find changes since last commit
Patches
How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare for Version Control
Scripts and the Command Line
How to use Beyond Compare in the Terminal
How to do an automatic backup every day
Write a Batch File That Will Start Several Syncs Simultaneously
Write a batch file that will start several text compares automatically
TL; DR
Table Compare
Quickstart: open a couple of Excel spreadsheets
Example: finding missing items in a pair of spreadsheets
Keys
Mismatched Columns
Longer example, opening .csv files
How to remove columns from a spreadsheet
Aligned vs Unaligned
Example: List of City Trees
Sync / Folders
Backup your entire computer (Part One)
Backup your entire computer (Part Two)
Backup, advanced
RegEx Examples: Filename Alignment Overide
Scan a lot or a little
Other
Peek
Binary
Undo
Colors
How to compare images
Report: Text Compare
Report: Table Compare
Looooonnnnngggg lines...
Binary: How to see the 1's and 0's
How to write your first script
How to find redundant or duplicate files
Minor Edge Cases
Shortcut Key
How to ignore parts of your file
Folder System Context Menus
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Downloads
Often, you can learn an app by just playing with it. But Beyond Compare is an empty glass. Fill it with some test data from this page.

Most important download, the Beyond Compare Free Download, Trial License!

To get started with Beyond Compare, on Mac, Linux, or Windows:
  1. 1.
    ​Download the software
  2. 2.
    Install it
  3. 3.
    Enjoy Beyond Compare for thirty (non-consecutive) days.
The Beyond Compare free trial does not need a registration key. It runs fully featured for the first thirty days and then you can pay either US$60 or US$30 for a perpetual license.
Next, if you are just playing around, maybe you are not sure what kinds of files to use when trying out Beyond Compare. Grab some test data!

Fake files to play with in TEXT COMPARE

text-MLK&Ike.zip
15KB
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text-Shake.zip
121KB
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Fake files to play with in TABLE COMPARE (Excel and CSV files):

table-tigers.zip
6KB
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Fake files to play with in FOLDER COMPARE:

folder-trees-TRES.zip
1MB
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Fake files to play with in FOLDER SYNC:

syncopate.zip
7KB
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Most important download, the Beyond Compare Free Download, Trial License!
Fake files to play with in TEXT COMPARE
Fake files to play with in TABLE COMPARE (Excel and CSV files):
Fake files to play with in FOLDER COMPARE:
Fake files to play with in FOLDER SYNC: