You and your co-worker lost track of who made the latest changes to that PowerPoint presentation. Say your kids downloaded images from the digital camera repeatedly to folders all over your hard drive. Figuring out what’s changed, what hasn’t and merging it all back together can be a huge pain in the ass, but it doesn’t have to be.
When several people are updating and making copies of the same files, multiple versions easily blossom out of control. For the Linux user, you can use similar tools, such as Diff (with Kdiff as a frontend). Lifehacker takes a look at this program which can save you lots of time and probably headaches. Just recently, a friend of mine had two files he -had- to find the differences between in order to continue to do what he was working on, and it’s too bad I didn’t know of WinMerge at the time.
Having the need to compare two files directly is not something just for server folk.
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