[X4U] Comparing disks, recovering data

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Mon Oct 6 14:23:35 PDT 2008


> >Are there any tools besides 'find . -print' and 'diff' that I can use to
> >compare the three HD's (month old 750GB clone, corrupt 750GB, and new 1TB)?
> >I want to try to identify what files are missing from the 1TB HD.
> 
> I'm not sure this little utility will do such a big job, but who 
> knows (hopefully, you soon WILL know):
> Compare Folders:  <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22492>
> Or, here's another one that gets 5 stars at VersionTracker, though it 
> costs $49, vs. $25 for Compare Folders:
> Match:  <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32252>
> 
> Daly

I hate to say it, but those prices make me really tempted to simply write my
own tool in Perl.  

Still by checking out the Match developers site, I learned about an
interesting tool they have in Beta for photographers doing 3-D. 
http://www.bytewash.com/Bytewash/More_Space.html  I'm not a huge fan of
Anaglyphs, but they do have their uses, so I think I'll have to check this
out.

Zane




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