Differences Examiner for Mac

User Reviews

• Complete garbage

  Maventi7/2/2011

  Pros

  None, really

  Cons

  Slow, buggy, probably Malware

  Summary

  From the moment you try and install this program, there's something fishy about it. First off, it tries to get you to shut down other programs like Firefox and Microsoft Word. This is probably so that it can try and install Malware, since there's no other reason to ask you to shut down programs.

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• Such lame recommendations below

  Born Yesterday7/24/2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />First off my only intention was to compare 2 text file's contents and have some way of highlighting the differences, Differences Examiner did it, slow as hell but it did it right. But those stupid and useless recommendations below were just lame! Let's see there was TextWrangler &amp; DiffMerge , my dead grandmother could have out run these lame ducks. FileMerge , don't make me laugh, what a useless POS that was. opendiff - Maybe on Tiger but not on Leo, and I can't stand Xcode tools, bloated and cumbersome. I guess with all the other choices mentioned, Differences Examiner slaughtered them by a long shot, slow and painful but far more useful than the useless suggestions.

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• Works okay, wish it did more!

  bcone10/4/2007

  Pros

  It does as advertised but only in plain text. Was very easy to use.

  Cons

  It would be great if it could work with other file types other than plain text documents. I was hoping to compare two pdf documents. I cut and pasted to plain text for each, saved and then compared and it worked though. If it did pdf's, word or Excel docs I'd register and use!

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• Did what I needed (no other app could)

  pedromontana--20086/21/2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Someone else said that FileMerge.app could handle all of the funtionality of this app. Not true. I had two files, File A and File B. File B contained SOME of the lines that File A contained and I need them to be flagged. Differences Examiner color-coded the differences, and in effect hilighted the identical lines by leaving them white. I agree that a necessary feature to add would be a progress bar of some sort. The files I compared were 120,000 lines, so it took a while to process and a status bar would have helped me gauge when to expect it to be completed.

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• O M F G

  khasmir--20084/5/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />who still wants to use anything from AlphaOmega? most of their software is some kind of cheap rip off and then it still doesn't work I can't believe this is v1.3, it's not even worth naming it 0.13 make it for free or don't even bother "These are people who saw an over crowded market and said: I want a piece of it"

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• Sucks. Anyone surprised?

  sooloo4/4/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />AlphaOmega. RealBasic. Enough said.

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• i would recommend differences examiner....

  sdkcu2/28/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />... for immediate deletion. its buggy and stupid. anyone with half a brain can use diff from the terminal for free. so why pay for this abomination.

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