Feature request: offset in "Compare by content" binary mode

[Wox]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for great file manager!

Now quickly about my problem: sometimes i need to compare files with some extra bits in front of one of comparable files and i should always trim these bytes with hex editor before compare. It would be nice to have offset input field (decimal, hex or both) in "Compare by content" binary mode.

Thank you

[MVV]

I agree that it would be nice to be able to compare binary files from any locations. Also perhaps support binary gaps. Currently there is a 'resync from here' feature for text files, it would be nice to be able to use it to specify exact bytes to resync from. But I think for such specification TC should allow selecting exact bytes, in such case it should highlight (or border with a frame) corresponding hex/char values for current byte like most hex editors do.

[Guillaume]

I'd like to revisit this feature request.

Binary comparison in TC is very fast, even for large files, whereas e.g. WinMerge doesn't support them and Beyond Compare simply crashes (like it always does).

Example use case: I made two images of the same disk, but with different programs at different times. I want to compare them (they should be identical), but one of the imaging programs added a header, which is not recognized as an offset by TC. As such, without the offset/resync feature, I can't compare the files with TC.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately binary mode does not re-sync like text mode.

[Guillaume]

Hmz, I would expect that using a user-specified read offset should be possible without much hassle, although simply using a read offset would prevent TC from visualizing the data before the offset.

[JOUBE]

Hmz, I would expect that using a user-specified read offset should be possible without much hassle, although simply using a read offset would prevent TC from visualizing the data before the offset.

...then make a suggestion about this in the corresponding forum

[Guillaume]

Hmz, I would expect that using a user-specified read offset should be possible without much hassle, although simply using a read offset would prevent TC from visualizing the data before the offset.

...then make a suggestion about this in the corresponding forum

Or someone can move this topic to https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewforum.php?f=14

[white]

Moderator message from: white » 2025-09-05, 21:30 UTC

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