Using file filters during file comparison portion of upgrade

File comparison software is completely new to me. Since failing at getting files in sync to even be able to compare w/ WinMerge I have moved on to Beyond Compare. In the Getting Started section of Beyond Compare the authors suggest using file filters to define which files to look at. Are there any file filters that would be appropriate during an upgrade? I'm thinking mainly of exclusion filters rather than inclusion filters, but, like I said, this is new to me:dontgetit

Thanks for your input
Audra

As I poke around in Beyond Compare I have come up w/ an additional question. What type of files am I comparing during a Zen upgrade. They talk about text files, binary files, and other files. :blink:

Thanks:smile:
Audra

Ok, well no solutions yet, but I'm racking up the questions! I loaded up, in Beyond Compare, /public_html (my current site is directly in there) and /new_shop. When I select the entire contents of each and compare them there are 934 files that don't match. When I browse into those individual files that show as not matching and search for the next mismatch it often shows that there are no mismatches. After going through a file it will no longer show as mismatched, but show as matched instead. Is this normal or am I missing something?

Thanks for any info. In the meantime I continue to go through the 934 files one by one:cry:

Audra

I'm not familiar with the particular software you are using, so can't speak to that in particular. Over-simply stated, Binary files are things like pictures and applications. All the code for your site is text.

Depending on what version of zen-cart you are comparing from and what version to, it may well be possible to have that many differing files. Especially since at one version jump in zc, all the header comments in all files were changed. Once you get looking, it may be that that's the only difference in some cases.

Good luck,

:thumbsup:
Thank you, I have done a rules based rather than binary comparison and the number is down to 71 files. There is also a CRC comparison option. Am I correct that I should not be doing a CRC comparison? (That results in 541 mismatched files.) I know that sheer number can be large, but I'm migrating from 1.2.6 to 1.2.7, not too many changes.

Thanks verdon, it looks like that piece of info answers 2 out of my 3 questions:smile:

Does anybody know if there are any file filters that would be useful?

Now to play around w/ the software some more:smile:

Best,
Audra

There was a thread in Archive-Documentation.

Using Winmerge

And there are reg. exp. from DrByte.

Thank you!