Total Commander

Reason:
when synchronizing two dirs with many big and small files on comparatively slow (cd/dvd, usb flash) drives from one or both sides, there are no reasons for me to enable 'by content' checkbox.
In this case internal or external compare tool would be useful.

You can actually do that. After comparing the directories in the sync tool (with 'by content' disabled), just right click a pair of found files and select 'compare left & right' (or Press CTRL+F3) to compare those files.

If you have defined an external compare tool with 'Comparetool=' in wincmd.ini, this one will be used.

2StickyNomad
The problem is that I don't know how I want to sync dirs:
copy right, left or delete some files.
When 'by content' checkbox is not activated I don't know really difference between some files even if they have same size.

Hm, but if you want to see which files have the same size but different content, how should TC be able to display those files without actually comparing their content?

The situation is:

two dirs with many big and small files on comparatively slow (cd/dvd, usb flash) drives from one or both sides

I don't want/havn't time to wait while comparing big files.

So do you want to be able to configure sth. like: 'compare files by content, but not if they are bigger than xxx KB'?

Sorry, I think I'm not getting yet what exact function you like to have.

So do you want to be able to configure sth. like: 'compare files by content, but not if they are bigger than xxx KB'?

Sorting by size can solve the problem... partly... but it's also not implemented yet. That's why this is in suggestions forum

Sorting by size can solve the problem... partly... but it's also not implemented yet.

You can actually sort the result list by size. Just click on the 'size'-tab header to do that. So it IS implemented. Maybe I'm just too tired to get it, but what exact feature do you want?

You can actually sort the result list by size. Just click on the 'size'-tab header to do that. So it IS implemented. Maybe I'm just too tired to get it, but what exact feature do you want?

Sizing works, yes. But not like I want.
Is sorts by size separately each supdir.
For me acceptable sorting in sync dirs (for case in 1st post):
1) would be nice to have it global
2) it should work BEFORE comparing - I want to sort list or select files for comparing before pressing 'Compare'

But sorting is not ideal way.
Ideal is option to ignore files more than xxx KB when comparing, like you already written.

DrShark wrote:1) would be nice to have it global

Nice idea, this would be similar to "Branch View" in normal use (having the directory specified in each line instead of grouping the files).
Using this, one could wait until all "small" files are compared, abort when reaching the big files, and work with the partially content-compared result list.

DrShark wrote:Ideal is option to ignore files more than xxx KB when comparing, like you already written.

Yes, sounds more elegant.