DeltaWalker folder and file comparison integration is designed to offer both a big-picture view and a deltailed view. This empowers you to analyze folder comparison results and launch file comparisons for the files of interest—typically these are matching, but different files. It's difficult to overstate the importance of this from usability perspective—using the powerful file-system browser metaphor, you get to see both the forest and the trees. There is no need to switch windows nor to scroll tabs back and forth—it's all there, and it's all in context.
There are many ways you can select one of more pairs or triplets of files for comparison:
Once you've selected the files you want to open file comparisons for, click on the Compare Selected menu or toolbar item.
| Folder comparison local menu | Compare Selected |
| Folder comparison toolbar button |
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| Folder comparison context menu | Compare Selected |
It's not uncommon, particularly when using one of the "Select..." actions described above, to instruct DeltaWalker to open too many files for comparison. Opening file comparison windows is a system resource consuming operations. To minimize the risk of overloading your system DeltaWalker limits the number of file comparison windows that can launched through the Compare Selected action to a predefined, but customizable number—20 by default.