Comments on: I want Beyond Compare 2 for Mac OS X

By: JakeR

JakeR — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:53:00 +0000

Winebottler (just download and create a new “prefix” directly from the BC3 installer) seems to work well. Compare network and FTP shares by simply mounting them in OS X and then navigating to /Volumes/MyNetworkShare to run the directory compare as only BC3 can do.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:30:00 +0000

I use the free WineBottler instead of Crossover.

By: Race Kritik

Race Kritik — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:48 +0000

Yup…. DeltaWalker is the one. Just tried it and it's quick and well thought out.

By: Venkat

Venkat — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:01 +0000

Been Beyond Compare user/favorite for the last 8 years. (kind of, can't work without it both at home and at work). And, I am pretty sure there are other Windows applications that we all are interested in. So, keeping that in mind, the recommended/best approach is either:

Crossover + Native Application (with no OS requirement)
Parallels Desktop + Native Application (with OS requirement)

(2) has an edge as it can support any Windows Application (Example: Windows Live Mail or Visual Studio)

P.S. I am using Parallels Desktop and is highly recommended!!

By: Barry Chertov

Barry Chertov — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:51:07 +0000

I recommend DeltaWalker by Deltopia.com. It’s fast, configurable, and intuitive and only $40. Finally something to replace BeyondCompare on the Mac!

By: poushag

poushag — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:52:43 +0000

Why buy a windoze emulator (CrossOver) to run BC3 when BC3 makes a Linux version that probably could run under X11? Since X11 is provided by Apple and the BC3 dual platform license is only $18 more, thats a savings of $22. Didn’t we switch to Mac to avoid DLL hell and the rest of Windows pain? I just discovered the Linux version of BC myself and unfortunately only 2 weeks back I finished a project that required diffing. I tried it on the Mac with kdiff3 but it seemed to mess up the eol characters so that I couldn’t load the merged SQL file. I ended up doing the diffs with BC on windoze (using my work laptop). The next time I need to diff on the Mac I will be trying X11 with the Linux BC3 (unless someone here finds out it doesn;t work before that)…

By: Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:19:48 +0000

Thanks to this post I just got Beyond Compare 3 working on Snow Leopard using CrossOver. Just download the Win32 binary version of BC3 and install in CrossOver, accepting all the defaults. Not sure if it makes a difference, but I installed Internet Explorer 6 from the list of known programs first, just in case BC needed any of it’s shared DLLs.

Before installing CrossOver, I tried Match – I could have dealt with the folder comparison (it worked but was nothing like BC’s comparison), but without a built in diff tool, it just didn’t cut it.

Oh, FWIW BC3 is marked as a Gold Medal compatible program for CrossOver: http://www.codeweavers.com/com.....app_id=296

By: Guido

Guido — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:51:20 +0000

It's already been mentioned earlier, but I think Deltawalker deserves being mentioned once again, because it is an amazing tool.

I've been using Beyond Compare for about 8 years, switched to the mac about 18 months ago and since then been looking for a replacement of Beyond Compare. I've been playing with Deltawalker for a couple of days now, it does everything I need to do. It's extremely intuitive and user-friendly, with a superb look & feel.

Pete mentioned ECMerge; I tried that as well but it's horrible and the complete opposite of Deltawalker in terms of user friendliness (it may have more features - I don't know; but if it takes me 2 weeks to find out, and forces me to search & click 8x8-pixel buttons to do very basic operations, I won't touch such a tool).

Anyone looking for Beyond Compare on the Mac, have a look at Deltawalker. Since Deltawalker is available for all platforms (also Linux & Windows) I'm even considering using Deltaware as my comparison tool on all platforms and getting rid of Beyond Compare completely. I think Scooter Software have had requests from the Mac community for years, but they haven't done any effort porting their tool to OS-X; it's a missed chance for them...

By: Robert Nicholson

Robert Nicholson — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:06:29 +0000

If you install Dev Tools you get FileMerge.app. Will that do?

By: Rosalie

Rosalie — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:05:04 +0000

After months of searching and weeks of trying different synchronization tools I finally found CrossOver (40$) where I installed the TotalCommander and now synchronize like I used to with Windows. Maybe this works with Beyond Compare, too. I know, it’s not the cheapest, easiest and most charming way, but it works and I’m happy.