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Merge Up To 3 Files, Images, and Folders

Ellié Computing Merge makes it easy to compare and merge document files, images, and folders, and does so using an intuitive visual interface.

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What are people saying about Ellié Computing Merge

O I Is Ellié Computing Merge capable of doing this: I need to find the changes in two English plain text files, but I need to merge them (mainly new text lines) to a translated version of the first English file. Currently, I use another compare tool and manually copy and paste each difference to the third file.

Also, is this offer for the Pro or Standard version of Ellié Computing Merge?

Thanks,

Jan 12 2011 at 12:37am Copy Link

Armel Asselin for the easy part: the offer is both for Standard and Pro version.

your merge is not really natural for a differ/merger, but it can be done in ECMerge using the patching feature (producing a non-contextual diff for the English1= English2 diff), then applying it to the translated version, as long as the translated version is translated one English line for one translated line in order. For modified lines, ECMerge will reject them into the clipboard, so you can re-translate by hand (simply paste the clipboard content and changed lines are there in patch format)

Armel

Ellie Computing - Jan 12 2011 at 2:52am Copy Link

Jason'sHat So why is this better than good old WinDiff then?

Jan 14 2011 at 4:27pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Jason: uh, WindDiff won't compare Word or OpenOffice text, will neither compare nor _synchronize_ FTP sites and so many other things ;-)
I believe the features set tells it all.

Armel

Ellie Computing - Jan 14 2011 at 8:35pm Copy Link

miguel Bombardo The German version uses a horribly bad translation.

Opening doc or docx files results in text with so many asterisks instead of the letters originally present that it is unusable for whatever task you have in mind. I don't understand how it is justified to tell future clients "Best of all, Ellié Computing Merge works with Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Text, and RTF documents."

Jan 14 2011 at 11:50pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin the trial version puts asterisks, but of course the purchased version does not!
noted for the german translation, we'll work on improving it.

Armel

Ellie Computing - Jan 15 2011 at 1:01am Copy Link

miguel Bombardo Why don't you mention this restriction - asterisks instead of letters - of the trial version? Or did you?

Another point you could improve. It relates to the HELP file. I was looking for sections where docx is mentioned. Indeed, sections were shown but encountering the docx was painful. You didn't introduce marking the term (here 'docx') I was looking for. Would be very helpful.

Jan 15 2011 at 1:46am Copy Link

Stephane M Hello,
How does ECMerge compare to Beyond Compare?
Thanks.

Jan 15 2011 at 2:45am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @miguel: thank you for your remarks, we'll definitely improve those points.

@Stephane: ECMerge is relatively equivalent to BC and present on Mac, some features are better in BC some better in ECMerge

Armel

Ellie Computing - Jan 15 2011 at 3:02am Copy Link

miguel Bombardo After having criticized various points in Ellié and a tour de force through other programs I hopefully got to a sound decision which meant buying Ellié. Especially the editor for doc and docx files works exactly.

I assure to be free of any linkages to the provider of this program nor do I have any commercial interests in this company or whatever might be imaginable in this field of conflicts of interests.

miguel Bombardo

Jan 15 2011 at 7:44am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @miguel: cool ;-) just a note, ECMerge will _compare_ doc/docx/rtf/sxw/odf... (the conversion is toward simple text only ECMerge doesn't know how to alter these file formats).

Ellie Computing - Jan 15 2011 at 7:59am Copy Link

Tazzie For those looking for a comparison to other File comparison tools, I found this page in Wikipedia. I don't know how up to date all of the info is, but I thought I would at least share it in case it might help provide some basis for comparison. Looking at this, Beyond Compare compares pretty favorably, but I think ECMerge in the end still has more options. It all depends on what you need/want from the program :) Hope this helps!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ison_tools

Jan 15 2011 at 8:59am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Stephane: for example, ECMerge has patch application with preview, it has 'conflict file' loading (files let behind by CVS, SVN, Perforce, Git...) when you update your local copy and there was an unattended merge: ECMerge loads those and present you a normal 2/3-way merge as if fully integrated, ECMerge has a built-in JavaScript engine which makes it suitable for automatic tasks because most diff results can be used from scripts (of course merges, copies and so on can be ran from scripts)

Ellie Computing - Jan 15 2011 at 9:06am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Stephane: ECMerge also has plugins for access to many SCC (CVS, SVN, Perforce, Git, Bazaar, Mercurial, VSS, Darcs), provided you have the commad line for your SCC tool installed, meaning you can compare two SVN branches directly or Perforce to SVN or deploy Git to FTP/S or whatever.

Ellie Computing - Jan 15 2011 at 9:09am Copy Link

Stephane M Thanks Armel for all the details!!

Jan 15 2011 at 11:11am Copy Link

S B Armel,

Are there plans for handling moved blocks of text?

User definable "Anchors" to denote synchronization points to help in comparison?

Syntax-coloring of programming languages? Syntax-structure awareness?

Options for whether white space/capitalization/blank lines/comments/etc. are significant?

Thank you for your quick and candid answers to others' questions!

I've ordered a license and am looking forward to using ECMerge.

-S B

Jan 15 2011 at 12:32pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin moved blocks: yes, long term
anchors: yes, mid term
syntax colouring: already
syntax structure: long term
white space/cap....: mid term

Ellie Computing - Jan 15 2011 at 6:43pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi, it's Armel from Ellié Computing. Here are some news from ECMerge since last promotion: we improved the help system which highlights searched keywords and we fixed a few bugs as well.

Ellie Computing - Jul 19 2011 at 1:13am Copy Link

Brenda Adams Can your product compare (and allow editing) in 3-way view?

Jul 20 2011 at 2:58am Copy Link

Software Guy Ellie computing has offered several different versions that can be viewed by hitting the buy now button. A pop -up window shows the versions and the prices. Please note that the windows or mac standard version is just $14.70. Also please read the older comments, particularly the wiki link for comparisons with other software.
Comparison and merge programs can save hours of time(usually frustrating time). For those that work with multiple copies of revised documents, IMHO $14.70 is a bargain.
I periodically use Beyond Compare or several other file comparison programs; this software is conceptually and practically very similar and performs favorably. However, I have not enough time with today'soffering to do a detailed comparison. Hopefully another bitsdujour fellow may provide additional insight.
Bottom line - this is a great offering that might save hours of reading and comparison, especially if you work with similar or frequently revised files.

Jul 20 2011 at 3:05am Copy Link

Brenda Adams Frustrated. I cannot figure out how to get two way text comparison to let me EDIT either side. Please help. Trial version. PS: Is offer for Pro version?

Jul 20 2011 at 3:33am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi, I'll be here all the day to answer to your questions.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 3:36am Copy Link

Armel Asselin b adams: you cannot yet edit in either side, this is currently in construction for a future version. You can edit the the merge result though.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 3:38am Copy Link

Armel Asselin b adams: the offer is for Pro as well as Standard version indeed.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 3:39am Copy Link

HJ B This application needs a better description of exactly what it does, I visited the website, and the descriptions there assume that readers are well acquainted with the problems it seeks to solve.

1. My data is mainly in one of five formats: Word, Excel, PDF, plain text and email. In addition there are graphics.

2. In comparing two or more Word documents, what advantage does this program have over Word's built in comparison function?

3. Does this program work with Excel, pdf, plain text or Thunderbird?

4. Sometimes I get a document in Word Perfect. Does it work with Word Perfect?

5. Can it compare across different formats, e.g Word and a document produced by some other application?

6. Exactly what does the merge function accomplish?

7. When it claims to work with graphics, does that mean graphic to graphic or does it mean the presence of a graphic within a Word document - compared to its presense, absence or location in another Word document?

Jul 20 2011 at 4:01am Copy Link

Armel Asselin 2. ECMerge first extracts text from the Word file, thus the comparison is text to text only. This is different
3. ECMerge is a standalone program which in turn can use converters to read various formats into text. For PDF, Excel and Thunderbird you need to install a converter.
4. There is a freely downloadable converter for Word Perfect documents which ECMerge is configured to work with
5. Yes, you can compare any format to any, RTF to DOC, PDF to OpenOffice.
6. The merge function in 2-way let you choose or mix left and right text where there are differences and potentially edit the result. In 3-way, it can determine what to keep from left or right based on an ancestor file. The output is always text only, it won't update Word or such file formats.
7. Yes, this is image to image (e.g. BMP to JPG or GIF to PNG...), graphics inside Word files are not considered.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 4:48am Copy Link

Lupke Brother Hi Armel,

I see the binary (hex) comparison is on the list. Great! Will it be possible to compare audio files like mp3, wav, exe, (version info et cetera) and registry (local and remote) and registry files in the future? If yes, how long will this take to work in Ecmerge?

ECmerge fits perfectly in XYplorer!

Jul 20 2011 at 6:34am Copy Link

Armel Asselin The hex compare will be in next version, you can see a few screen shots on our blog (http://elliecomputing.wordpress.com).
This is not yet structured binary though (no field semantic / interpretation).
Comparing version info for .exe, mp3, wav is already possible with the current version, you just need to install ExifTool.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 6:50am Copy Link

Armel Asselin We don't have plan for registry file comparison yet.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 6:54am Copy Link

Lupke Brother oh yeah, I overlooked it in the preference menu settings. Thanx.

well, I take the registry comparison for granted and buy a pro copy.

Jul 20 2011 at 7:03am Copy Link

Armel Asselin It's 23:30 here in France, I am now leaving, if you need more information you can ask here and I'll answer tomorrow in the morning. You can contact us by mail at sales (at) elliecomputing.com as well.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 2:24pm Copy Link

xCurt 7½ hours left but it says $50 instead of $24.50 (Win+Pro). I refuse to click Make Purchase when a wrong price is displaying.

Jul 20 2011 at 4:35pm Copy Link

Mike B Same as for Curt - discount is not showing in the checkout page.

Jul 20 2011 at 6:04pm Copy Link

Math Mike Discount not showing in the checkout page at 4 hours, 4 minutes. No purchase without discount. Sorry.

Jul 20 2011 at 7:55pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin I don't anderstand, from our side the offer was parametered internally up to 7/21/2011, I upgraded to 7/22/2011, please ask BitsDuJour team to let you buy from their system, if it cannot be done contact us at sales (at) elliecomputing.com, I'll do the necessary stuff.

Ellie Computing - Jul 20 2011 at 11:39pm Copy Link

Roger Thomasson Hey folks, sorry for the confusion here! Feel free to shoot me an email (roger

bitsdujour.com) with the version you'd like to purchase and I'll send over the appropriate purchase link :-)

-r

BitsDuJour Admin - Jul 21 2011 at 7:46am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi,

this is Armel for Ellié Computing, I'll be present on July 7th to answer your questions. This time there is the new version 2.5; it adds supports for SSH FTP, Debian/RPM package for Linux (in the All platforms version), the Mac OSX version is now much more 'Cocoa native'. Raw binary comparison is there (Hex + ASCII view) and is able to compare huge files (e.g. tested on 7GB virtual disk files).

If you have any question, please ask.
Have a nice week end
Armel

Ellie Computing - Jul 4 2012 at 12:52am Copy Link

Armel Asselin I forgot to mention that we are renewing completely the German translation these days, we could not include it in the first official build of ECMerge 2.5 for schedule reasons, but it should be OK by two weeks.

Ellie Computing - Jul 5 2012 at 2:25am Copy Link

Donald Spady Is the offer for the Standard or the Pro version. The advert above implies that I can compare 3 versions of a document simultaneously, but that is only available in the Pro version. The offer is unclear on this point.

Thanks

Don

Jul 6 2012 at 7:25am Copy Link

Armel Asselin the offer is for both Standard and Pro.

Ellie Computing - Jul 6 2012 at 7:53am Copy Link

Ralph Bressler It is misleading to say that there is a three way merge but the price displayed is for the standard two way merge. I was interested but I don't like dealing with companies that are completely honest about their products.

Jul 6 2012 at 9:12pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Ralph: there is no bad intention here, just one place to indicate the price and two different prices, the Pro version All platforms is at $ 29.4 and the Pro version for Windows or Mac is at: $24.5.

Ellie Computing - Jul 6 2012 at 10:58pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Ralph: uh, in fact, 4 different prices... sorry it's early in the morning here, it seems i'm not totally awoken. by the way, if you take a quick look at our prices page in our site with have the opposite presentation (i.e. the first price to be displayed is the full price for ECMerge All platforms).
@bitsdujour: could we add some little "From" in front of the prices? it would make it clear there are several different prices.

Ellie Computing - Jul 6 2012 at 11:10pm Copy Link

Yudha Yan Kusuma Should converters installed for ECMerge to work?

Jul 7 2012 at 2:00am Copy Link

Frank Sielna @Ralph: If you "don't like dealing with companies that are completely honest about their products." you're probably at the wrong place here.
Russian companies might suite you better then ;)

Jul 7 2012 at 2:01am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Yudha: no of course, you don't require any converter to make ECMerge work (even the builtin converter Xtract is not required in fact). However, ECMerge comes with our own RTF/Word/OpenOffice Writer text converter called Xtract, so these formats are handled off the shelf. Xtract also opens ZIP files, so you can compare ZIP contents, to update ZIP content you need to have 7 Zip, WinRAR or WinZip command line (7 Zip works on linux and mac as well) and get the update zip macro here: http://elliecomputing.wor...merge-2-4/

Ellie Computing - Jul 7 2012 at 2:25am Copy Link

Mike Lively What are the licensing requirements? One copy per computer, one copy per person, etc?

Jul 7 2012 at 6:05am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Basically, this is a "named" or "single client computer if multiple users". If you run e.g. a "single man" business, it means you need one licence even you have 2 PC and a Mac to do your job. If you have a 10 members team, you'll need 10 licences.
Details are here: http://www.elliecomputing...473186.asp

Ellie Computing - Jul 7 2012 at 6:20am Copy Link

Lupke Brother Bought this on 7/20/2011 on BDJ. Instead of buying an uprade for 40% after one year, I'll buy a new license today with 51% :-) Use this a lot. Thank you!

Jul 7 2012 at 1:55pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin It's 00:40 AM here, I'll come back early tomorrow to answer questions :)

Ellie Computing - Jul 7 2012 at 3:45pm Copy Link

Frank Sielna @Armel: Your presence here is exemplary! I wish every vendor did so! Thank you (though I/we do not have any use for your soft)!

@BDJ: In the past we got to know that you have some rules for vendors (such as no 2nd promotion within a few weeks).
How about a rule to provide an Armel to us? That made your site/offers much more attractive to us (community).

Regards, Frank

Jul 7 2012 at 9:55pm Copy Link

Sam Calabrese @Ralph: "...but I don't like dealing with companies that are completely honest about their products."

Interesting. I do.

Jul 7 2012 at 10:06pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Here am I again :)

@Sam and @Frank: i'm sure you noted that Ralph made a typo... there is a missing "not". We added the disclaimer about 3-way only in Pro version in reaction to Ralph comment.

@Frank: thank you very much, I booked the date and stayed at home doing the housekeeping between two mails! :)

Ellie Computing - Jul 7 2012 at 11:25pm Copy Link

Frank Sielna HOUSEWORK?! (You should not admit such!!)
so Armel is a GIRLs name at the end???
Or are you a "Metrosexual" guy or however that is called today if someone is just a social guy not abusing his wife?

Jul 7 2012 at 11:37pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Frank: I am definitely a guy, and indeed I help my wife with the housekeeping (after all, she also has a Master in CS...)...

Ellie Computing - Jul 7 2012 at 11:50pm Copy Link

Yudha Yan Kusuma Hi guys, I tried to buy through Paypal but the result is "Invalid Order Action". Order ID: 39ZLD7U-B7LJ2D

Please help.

Jul 7 2012 at 11:56pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Yudha: In RegNow interface, it is marked with "This cart has not completed the checkout process". If you cannot submit the payment, please send me an email at info@elliecomputing.com, i'll send the code to profit of the offer.

Ellie Computing - Jul 8 2012 at 12:07am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Yudha: I just sent you an email with instructions.

Ellie Computing - Jul 8 2012 at 12:29am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @all: bye bye!

Ellie Computing - Jul 8 2012 at 12:46am Copy Link

Frank Sielna Go doing your homework, mate!
:P

P.S: Lucky wife you have!!

Jul 8 2012 at 1:00am Copy Link

H. H. Hallo,
I just tried ecmerge and have the following questions:
1. may there be a problem regarding pdf files? I tried to compare 2 pdf files - the preview seemed to be correct, but when comparing the modus was changed to binary. When trying to change to text-comparison, it was waid, that the documents containe binary letters. Neither scooter beyond compare nor grigsoft compareIt had any problem showing and comparinge these files.

2.is there a possibility to only show e.g. the identical or pasted or deleted or changed file (e.g. with clicking at the green symbol for changed files,... ( or planned this feature for the future)?
Beyond Compare allows to show either all or only identical or only different elements - that gives a better overview in long documents or long folder lists.

3. Do you plan to implement a snapshot - feature for files and
folders in the near future? Beyond Compare has this feature
and I really won´t miss it any longer

H.H.

Dec 1 2012 at 1:45am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi,

1. PDF files can be compared if you install Xpdf or some other PDF converter detected by the plugins system (basically this is just a download away from foolabs.org, place pdftotext.exe somewhere in your PATH), I just verified with the latest version of Xpdf 3.03

2. yes, use the Documet menu / Document quick options / Hides files when... (you can set keyboard shortcuts if you use them often)

3. ECMerge 3 has the infrastructure for it, so we should have it in the coming year.

Regards
Armel

Ellie Computing - Dec 1 2012 at 7:55am Copy Link

H. H. Hallo,
2. thank you for your response. So I found the quick panel document options (not quite sure when to use the anchor - feature (and not right or lieft) ?. It seems to give a better overview
3. nice to read, that you´ll implement the snapshot feature. It can be really useful to be abgle to see if folder or documents have changed.

1. unfortunately I still didn´t manage to get the pdf-files working. Perhaps you may post areally step-by-step instruction to get that working. I still post it at bdj, since I assume that I´ll not be the only person having difficulties with this opic (and if not solved or being too complicated people may hesitate buying.

Thaynk you for responding again in advance
H.H.

Dec 2 2012 at 8:23am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi,

@H.H.: here is a step by step "pdf tutorial":
1. download the .zip files containing Win32/Win64 executables from Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.org/xpdf), the files is called xpdfbin-win-3.03.zip
2. unzip it where you like on your harddrive
3. the program that interest us is "pdftotext.exe": if you placed it somewhere listed in your PATH variable, you just have to restart ECMerge -- if not, go in the Preferences / Converters panel, find "PDF to Text (xpdf)" entry, open it and set the path of "pdftotext.exe" in the Application field (you can use the Browse button placed aside to do so)
4. verify in the default comparison options (menu Document/Document options...) that "PDF to Text(xpdf)" is enabled in the Converters list.

you're done.

I realize that the PATH stuff is not always practical, the 2.5.187 will contain a new feature: you'll just have to place your converters in a sub-directory called "user-converters" of ECMerge directory and they will be detected (no more need to tweak PATH variable).

Regards
Armel

Ellie Computing - Dec 2 2012 at 9:31am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi again, (I send you the response here so it can profit to everybody)

@H.H. the latest version is the plugin detection code is at http://www.soft.elliecomp...erters.zip, you could unzip it in ECMerge "macros" directory. It should overwrite a file called built_in.js.

this version supports the "user-converters" directory.
NB: you might want to remove a converter before clicking Auto-detect if you tried to tweak parameters (and actually messed with them)

Regards
Armel

Ellie Computing - Dec 2 2012 at 3:08pm Copy Link

Joss I've downloaded and installed a trial from
http://www.elliecomputing...uct_id=493

When I run app in my Win8 64, it shows error:
"Can't load resources from C:\Program Files(x86)\....Merge\ui.zip#zip:ecsccmerge-handwriten.xrc"

Dec 3 2012 at 12:58am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Mike, strange, I need to check what happens, we certified for Win8 64, so clearly it should work. I contact you again as soon as I find something.

Ellie Computing - Dec 3 2012 at 1:40am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Mike, just installed a brand new Win8 RTM, plus ECMerge from our site, it works like a charm. Could you verify that the install finished correctly (that ui.zip files is really there, if not, maybe the install was aborted halfway?), we can debug this by mail with more info if you like (at info@elliecomputing.com)

Ellie Computing - Dec 3 2012 at 2:20am Copy Link

Joss @Armel Asselin

I've sent email.

Dec 3 2012 at 2:35am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @all, if your system does not use Western characters (e.g. cyrillic, arabic...), please use an installation path without accent, we'll fix that for 2.5.187

Ellie Computing - Dec 3 2012 at 4:40am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @all, H.H. did not have time to put again a message here, but the PDF conversion problem he had is fixed.

Ellie Computing - Dec 3 2012 at 5:59am Copy Link

H. H. @ Armel Asselin
Hallo,
thanks a lot for the fast solution of the pdf - converter problen. The script-file you posted above works very fine. So i´ve already placed my order for buying the pro version
@customers
Ithink the product is promising, the support reacted fast and sovlved the problem. At this discounted price I´d really recommend buying if one has to compare files and folders. Additiobnally the userfriendly policy (licensed per user, no hardware-footprinted online activation procedure) are additional arguments for buying.
I decided to buy ecmerge pro although I´m already registered user of beyond compare (also a good piece of comparison software with reliable support). But ecmerge has advantages when having to deal with office - text, doc,.. files, because it allows text wrapping, (Beyond compare requires scrolling horicontally - not giving a good overview). So it is much easier in ecmerge to see differences at a glance The visual appearance of ecmerge is fine and man possibilities to adjust.
The (until now not eimplemented) snapshotfeature is told to be developed for future versions
H.H.

Dec 3 2012 at 7:09am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @all, I am still there to answer your questions until midnight (it's nearly 19h51 here)

Ellie Computing - Dec 3 2012 at 10:52am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @all, midnight here, i'll be here tomorrow early in the morning

Ellie Computing - Dec 3 2012 at 2:55pm Copy Link

MBPBo Just tried 6 times to purchase this item, using both Firefox and IE and PayPal and CC - always rejected as either cannot verify address or invalid transaction. Too bad when these online vendor services reject absolutely valid information for purchases. Software companies are losing lots of sales due to these issues.

I had planned on getting the top package here, but no luck due to the ordering problems. Oh well, saved almost $30...

Dec 3 2012 at 9:02pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Beau: I am sure we can do something, please contact BitsDuJour support in priority (at least we can work it out for sure), we'll make the price no problem.

Ellie Computing - Dec 3 2012 at 10:45pm Copy Link

Nico Westerdale Great News! Ellie Computing has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy!

BitsDuJour Admin - Dec 4 2012 at 12:11am Copy Link

Yudha Yan Kusuma @ Armel Asselin

I can't download from the link in order receipt, download limit reached.

Dec 4 2012 at 12:13am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Yudha: you can download from your account on our site (go to the Users section, request your password, with your name as login or the email you purchase with, connect and go to My software)

Ellie Computing - Dec 4 2012 at 12:44am Copy Link

Yudha Yan Kusuma @ Armel Asselin

Why should we download from user account? What's the different with the evaluation version?

Dec 4 2012 at 1:06am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Yudha: oh, that's just that you have your serial at hand as well that way, but the evaluation software is the same as the full version... except the key ;-)

Ellie Computing - Dec 4 2012 at 1:09am Copy Link

Ioannis Voulelakis I have just installed ECMerge and tried a two-way compare of two Word files (English text). Funny thing is, all e's and m's show as asterisks. Why is that?

Dec 4 2012 at 7:38am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Ioannis: this is the trial :-)

Ellie Computing - Dec 4 2012 at 7:40am Copy Link

H. H. @Ioannis Voulelakis
Hallo, it´s only the demo-version limitation. I bought ecmerge yesterday and after inserting the serial-number everything works ok (tried it on german and english language).
I´m, suprised how many fine-tuning features the software has (e.g. when copying from one pane to the other). Probably it will take some time to "discover" alll the capabilities the software has.
H.H.

Dec 4 2012 at 10:50am Copy Link

Ioannis Voulelakis OK, although it seems a bit drastic for a time-limited trial (what could one do? Compare all the files in his computer while the trial is still active so as not to have to buy it at all? :-) ...

Dec 4 2012 at 10:50am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Ioannis: Xtract is built separately from ECMerge, although bundled with it, so the "use-days" limit does not apply to it, it just reacts to the presence of a valid serial for ECMerge. The stars are not that annoying in a test perspective.

@H.H. thanks, we strive to add many more features in 3.0 (and hopefully make them more accessible in the same time!)

Ellie Computing - Dec 4 2012 at 11:02am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @all: nearly midnight here, I'll be back tomorrow early in the morning.

Ellie Computing - Dec 4 2012 at 2:56pm Copy Link

J S Hi Armel Asselin,

In your 3 part reply to "H. H." (the one showing as the top comment for this current promotion) dated "Ellie Computing Vendor - Saturday at 7:55am" which I'll re-quote here: "... 3. ECMerge 3 has the infrastructure for it, so we should have it in the coming year. ..."

"If" I'm reading that correctly You're suggesting that ECMerge version 3.0 should be available within a year, [ Yes / No ]

Question 1: Do you therefore think, that if somebody purchased today's Bitsdujour DEAL for the current version 2.5 build 186, they would be entitled to a FREE Upgrade of License to cover the next major upgrade of ECMerge?

Question 2: In Your opinion how do you think this program compares to "Beyond Compare" by Scooter Software, or do you know of any websites that compare Your program to some of the others in the market place such as Beyond Compare, Deltopia DeltaWalker etc.?

If you would prefer to answer my questions privately I believe that Bitsdujour show You (as the vendor) my email address and I would be happy to accept your reply this way.

Dec 4 2012 at 11:56pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @J.S. Yes, ECMerge 3.0 should be released in 2013 unless something weird happens.

Q1. yes, as usual
Q2. maybe difftools.com, the guy at misuse.org made a review some times ago. Beyond compare is a very good tool, I believe we have some features in our favor and some are in theirs.

Ellie Computing - Dec 5 2012 at 12:20am Copy Link

Danny Comparison Is also possible with alternative of Microsoft Word as TextMaker from SoftMaker Office?

May 8 2013 at 12:25am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Comparison works with RTF and OpenOffice Writer as well as DOC/DOCX. We don't have yet a .tmd file converter, we contacted TextMaker support to know what we can do.

Ellie Computing - May 8 2013 at 12:44am Copy Link

Danny This application software Is not redundant if one has a good Duplicate Cleaner?

May 8 2013 at 7:02am Copy Link

Armel Asselin A duplicate cleaner indexes files per name/content, then allows you to remove (or operate at some extent) on redundant files.
ECMerge is there to help you work with the files that are _not_ redundant, but only part of it is. It typically happens when coworkers modify the same document. It is useful of course to all kind of durable document or source code work and you want to have a clear view of the evolution of your documents. Working with a good comparison tool and a source code control is a must in this situation.

Ellie Computing - May 8 2013 at 1:00pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin I've had an answer from SoftMaker team, they explained that there is not yet a converter for .tmd files and advise to save as .doc files for comparison. Not perfect...

Ellie Computing - May 8 2013 at 1:03pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi everybody, I am Armel from Ellié Computing, i'll be there today and tomorrow to answer your questions.

Ellie Computing - May 11 2013 at 3:46am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi everybody, I am Armel from Ellié Computing, i'll be there today and tomorrow to answer your questions so don't hesitate :-)

Ellie Computing - May 11 2013 at 3:49am Copy Link

Armel Asselin oops, I should be more patient :-)

Ellie Computing - May 11 2013 at 3:51am Copy Link

Matt Purchase Problems...

Message reads:

Dear Customer,

We were unable to verify that the information you entered on the order form is valid.

please contact our customer service department for assistance.

For reference, your order id is xxxxxxxxxxxx

I've made two purchases on BDJ in the past week with no problems using Avangate

This purchase uses MyCommerce as the payment processor. Seems like I've had problems in the past with them.

Oh well, I guess I'll send them an email and see if they can fix this before the sale is over.

May 11 2013 at 8:41am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Zee: I don't see any failed or blocked order in the RegNow vendor interface ;-(

Ellie Computing - May 11 2013 at 10:46am Copy Link

Armel Asselin It's 1:30 AM here, i'm leaving, you can post here, i'll reply early in the morning.

Ellie Computing - May 11 2013 at 4:34pm Copy Link

Rick Truell Armel Asselin: "oops, I should be more patient :-)"

Plus, you're probably not supposed to suggest ahead of time that the deal is going to be extended for another day :-)

May 11 2013 at 9:13pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Rick: uh, I'm just telling that I am back early in the morning... so late at night for you!

Ellie Computing - May 11 2013 at 10:16pm Copy Link

gail f Does this search for similar files, or do you manually have to locate and select each pair of files to compare? If it doesn't locate them all automatically then this seems very tedious to do. thanks!

May 12 2013 at 5:54am Copy Link

Retired Engineer If I have two icons which are the same line drawing, but colored differently, can Ellie Computing Merge detect this?

May 12 2013 at 6:05am Copy Link

Laga Mahesa I was very keen on this until I actually tried the demo on two files in my local dropbox folder which I know work fine with WinMerge - an essay by a student, and the subsequent edited version.

Twice I've run it, twice I've seen this. The first time I clicked the tick symbol next to the url in the right pane, the second I pressed Enter in the same url field. Both were an attempt to get that pane to load the content and not show the stupid demo text instead.

Oh, and it needed an end task via task manager to kill.

http://www.stone-d.net/ecmerge.jpg

I'm going to pass on this - however, if you want help debugging, shout.

May 12 2013 at 6:06am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @gail: ECMerge is not duplicate file finder, it is designed to present the difference between files that you know to be related. It is particular capabilities depending on the file format to ignore some information (particular lines/regular expressions in text files, small modifications of colors in images...)

Ellie Computing - May 12 2013 at 6:55am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @retired engineer: yes, as long as the icon format is supported (you can install ImageMagick, and ECMerge can call it, to convert from unsupported file formats)

Ellie Computing - May 12 2013 at 6:56am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Laga Mahesa: If you kind provide us with the files, please send them to info@elliecomputing.com, we'll find what goes wrong and fix :)

Ellie Computing - May 12 2013 at 7:00am Copy Link

Matt ECMerge is a really nice program!

I've used WinMerge for years. There is really no comparison between the two. ECMerge is way better!

If you want to see a drastic difference, just compare two similar binaries. You'll see how nice ECMerge displays the binaries compared to WinMerge.

Wow, what a difference!

May 12 2013 at 10:17am Copy Link

S B I have purchased a Pro license in lieu of updating my version 2.4 of EC Merge Pro (the BDJ promotion price is cheaper than the update).

With version 2.4 I've had problems comparing MS Word (mostly 2007) Documents--with so little success that I had given up.

1) Have there been changes to the way that EC Merge handles MS Word Docs?

2) Are there guidelines about what Word Docs EC Merge can handle? (I remember some brief comments somewhere on the web site, but I cannot now find them)

3) Will EC Merge eventually handle Word 2011 and 2013?

4) Overwhelmingly most of the changes to EC Merge in the past couple of years have been bug fixes (though according to the web site, 2.5 did introduce some enhancements). Is EC Merge still being developed, and what major changes do you anticipate?

It would be great to have a solid, capable comparer MS Office docs: Word, *Excel*, Power Point, etc.

Thanks!

May 12 2013 at 9:03pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @S B:

1. we have done a few fixes, the latest is from yesterday (from the files sent by @Laga Mahesa here)
2. ECMerge should be able to handle Word 6 to Word 8 (=97/2000) format nicely, as well as DOCX files.
3. yes we will eventually, the precision of the conversion might vary depending on how complex a particular doc file is.
4. yes, ECMerge is still being developed actively. The version 3.0 to come will bring several new features.

Ellie Computing - May 13 2013 at 12:45am Copy Link

Retired Engineer Re: "... yes, as long as the icon format is supported (you can install ImageMagick, and ECMerge can call it, to convert from unsupported file formats)"

All my captured icon files are in .ICO format. I don't find anything on ImageMagick's website about icons, but there may be a way to batch convert them to a supported image format. Can you help me on making this determination?

May 13 2013 at 8:08am Copy Link

Armel Asselin ECMerge loads Windows .ico files natively however it compares only the first resolution found in the ico file

Ellie Computing - May 13 2013 at 9:00am Copy Link

Laga Mahesa The issue I reported 9 comments back has been fixed. I've been trialing this for the day and I'm quite impressed, enough to go for the Standard All Platform license - I've no use for 3 way merging, unfortunately - as I plan to buy a Mac sometime in the near future.

Nice work, Ellié Computing.

May 14 2013 at 7:27am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hello, I'm Armel from Ellié Computing, I'll be there all the day, if you have questions feel free to ask :)

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 12:07am Copy Link

Northern sp. z o.o. I want buy 6 licenses - 5 standard and 1 pro, which price i will need to pay for pro license ?? (1-4 or 5-9 quantity)

Oct 15 2013 at 5:19am Copy Link

Armel Asselin the payment system will consider it to be in the 1-4 quantity

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 5:27am Copy Link

Northern sp. z o.o. Do You have any plans to support xls files ???

Oct 15 2013 at 5:28am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Arkadiusz: for xls only long term plans

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 5:28am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Arkadiusz: by "for xls" I mean supporting them as true grids of data with multiple worksheets and accompanying scripts, to compare them as simple text we could probably do that much sooner (comparing only raw formulas and values, and scripts/macros dumped at the end)
by the way, .xlsx can already be diffed as they are ZIP files with XML inside

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 5:31am Copy Link

dom domi bonsoir, quel est le format TVA pour la france? "FR123456789" ne passe pas.. merci

Oct 15 2013 at 10:02am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @dom domi: il manque des chiffres, le site http://www.tva-intracommunautaire.com/ vous donne le numéro à partir du SIRET/SIREN

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 10:06am Copy Link

dom domi ok merci, vu erreur super rapide!

Oct 15 2013 at 10:29am Copy Link

Matt Hi Armel,

You said in the December 4th, 2012 conversation that Version 3 would have many new features and would probably be released some time in 2013.

Do you still plan on releasing Version 3 sometime this year?

Are you still offering the FREE upgrade to Version 3 for purchases made today, as you've done in the past?

Thank you.

Oct 15 2013 at 11:58am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Matt : if you purchase ECMerge today, you will get version 3 for free.

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 12:18pm Copy Link

Tazzie When do you approximately plan to release Version 3?

Oct 15 2013 at 1:12pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Tazzie: ECMerge 3 should be released sometimes Q1 2014 or early Q2. We had to shift the planning unfortunately.

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 1:44pm Copy Link

Matt Great news Armel!

I will be purchasing ECMerge soon.

Thanks again.

Oct 15 2013 at 1:50pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin I have to leave for a few hours, if you have questions, post here, I'll be back before the end of the day

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 3:53pm Copy Link

Richard Cantor Does it compare pdf files

Oct 15 2013 at 6:16pm Copy Link

Lito FYI, for some reason I could not check out using Firefox v24.0 I had to checkout using Chrome. The cart just constantly gave me an error (The connection was reset) when I clicked on the link to go to the order page. So I had to copy the link and pasted it into chrome to checkout. I have ordered from the mycommerce.com site before on previous orders successfully in the past so someone might want to look into it.

Oct 15 2013 at 10:19pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Richard Cantor: you just need to download pdftotext from the xpdf project and place it in the user-converters sub-directory of ECMerge, it will then compare the text extracted from PDFs

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 10:56pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Lito: we ping MyCommerce on that subject

Ellie Computing - Oct 15 2013 at 10:57pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Lito: I tested with Firefox 24 here and Toni K. from DigitalRiver tested as well, we cannot reproduce the problem. I would suspect some plug-in. I am sure DigitalRiver folks would be happy to find and fix a problem on their side if any, do as you feel :)

Ellie Computing - Oct 16 2013 at 7:43am Copy Link

Lito @Armel I just tried it again now, and it seems to be working now. Oh well not sure why it happened. I haven't installed/uninstalled any plugins in some time, though I did just update the noscript one today so maybe that did it, but I am positive I disabled it when I placed order (kind of my standard procedure since carts generally don't play nice with it).

Oct 16 2013 at 12:26pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin It's pretty late here, I'll be back before the end of the promotion to answer questions if any.

Ellie Computing - Oct 16 2013 at 3:56pm Copy Link

Matt Hi Armel,

You said back in 2012 that you were working on version 3 and that it would probably release some time in 2013 and that purchases made then would allow for a free upgrade to version 3.

Are you still working on version 3 and if so, are you still offering the free version 3 upgrade?

Thank you.

Mar 26 2014 at 2:05pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Yes, we are working on version 3, some parts are ready but not the all that we want for the release, we'll provide you with a free upgrade.

Ellie Computing - Mar 26 2014 at 4:32pm Copy Link

Matt Thank you, Armel! Really nice software!

Mar 27 2014 at 1:48am Copy Link

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Mar 28 2014 at 4:44am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Stanley: (your question without the "undefined" garbage: Can I run your software from a flashdrive, is it portable?) yes, there is small procedure to follow which is explained in the documentation, ECMerge 3 to come late this year has a specific install option for that.

Ellie Computing - Mar 28 2014 at 4:59am Copy Link

Armel Asselin I forgot to send a greetings message today :-/
It's 9:40 pm o'clock, i should be there for 2 or 3 hours, if your have any question, feel free to ask.

Ellie Computing - Mar 28 2014 at 1:39pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin It's quite late here (1:30 am), so i'll leave for now, I'll try to get back before the end of the deal in case there are other questions

Ellie Computing - Mar 28 2014 at 5:28pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi, this is Armel from Ellié Computing.
If you have any question, feel free to ask :)

Ellie Computing - May 14 2016 at 6:05am Copy Link

Hrvoje Muzina I bought 2-way version several years ago from BitsDuJour. It came with a promise of free version 3 upgrade. Is version 3 ever coming out?

2-way version turned out to be a waste of money for me as I discovered I really needed the 3-way version but there is no option to upgrade to Pro. So gave up on ECMerge and currently using free Kdiff 3.

May 14 2016 at 4:38pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hrvoje, I'm sorry you did not contact our support, we would have explained you how to upgrade (providing you with a coupon code to reduce the cost to the difference of price).

Version 3 will not be released any time soon (due to its GUI being initially somewhat too ambitious), it is progressing though, and was deployed to some production systems as command line.

Ellie Computing - May 14 2016 at 5:27pm Copy Link

Chuck While I'm interested, your website notes the last update was released 02/12/2015, with that version being 2.5 build 204. In addition, your last blog past, dated March 13, 2017, indicated version 3.0 with a new GUI was in work, and also alluded to the potential of limited development time (even implying a lone developer who had a day job). What is the latest? Is this even in development anymore?

Oct 30 2019 at 5:16pm Copy Link

Linton User Well it says that it only works with Windows up to Win 8.1... so I gather it probably hasn't had a particularly huge amount of further development carried out on it.

Oct 31 2019 at 12:12am Copy Link

Lukasz Kowalczyk I use it under Windows 10 64-bit. It works fine.

Oct 31 2019 at 12:31am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Yes, I am still developing ECMerge, despite very slowly.
I envision several updates: the JS engine to be replaced by a modern engine, a x64 versions, probably abandoning x86 version on all but Windows. It should give birth to a 2.6

The text comparison algorithm in ECMerge 3.0 delivers results superior to those that can be seen in most other applications, so I'll keep working on it until I get a proper ECMerge release.

Ellie Computing - Oct 31 2019 at 1:35am Copy Link

Bernhard Is the moved blocks feature implemented now?

"Armel Asselin moved blocks: yes, long term
Ellie Computing - Jan 15 2011 at 6:43pm"

Oct 31 2019 at 2:38am Copy Link

Armel Asselin I have to admit they are not accessible in 2.x versions and won't in foreseeable future :(
the code is in the 3.0 branch, and it requires the structural changes of 3.0

Ellie Computing - Oct 31 2019 at 2:53am Copy Link

Blikk Seeing that it has been 4 years since the last update, the likelihood of being able to get any kind of update at all on a purchase is extremely unlikely.

Per the "Fine Print" tab:
"Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free for 12 months"

Oct 31 2019 at 5:29am Copy Link

Stephen Warkentien Will you please offer a discount upgrade to owners of version 2?

Oct 31 2019 at 9:35am Copy Link

Armel Asselin When there is an upgrade, we send a newsletter to all the previous customers that asked for it announcing the rebate (typically 40%, can be more for very short periods). For those that are in the free upgrade period, we add their free version to their account.

Ellie Computing - Oct 31 2019 at 11:23am Copy Link

Stephen Warkentien Doh!

Oct 31 2019 at 11:32am Copy Link

Blikk That's my point
You have not released an upgrade for 4 years.
Any saving now is negated by the fact that one will most likely need to pay an upgrade fee to get the next update.

Oct 31 2019 at 12:08pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Indeed, when you buy today, it is to profit of the features that are there just now.

Ellie Computing - Oct 31 2019 at 1:32pm Copy Link

Chuck I purchased this six years ago and still have it installed on my Win10 (64) machine; it still works. At the time, it was version 2.5 build 192. The only significant update (for me) occurred four months later with the 64-bit build. Otherwise, the few updates pushed mostly dealt with minor bug fixes and language translations. We are approaching five years since any update was released.

Knowing what I know now, I would still have made the purchase then. That said, I'm not sure I would make the purchase today given the update history.

Caveat emptor.

Oct 31 2019 at 5:57pm Copy Link

Kelly Hamblin I am not so big on upgrades because I often don't like the changes made. What I would like to know about this application is: does it come with a help file or is the help online only?

Nov 1 2019 at 7:38am Copy Link

Armel Asselin there is a help file bundled in the installer (basically a ZIP of HTML files), with the appropriate reader and indexes built in ECMerge so that pressing F1 on the various elements brings you to the matching section of the help.

Ellie Computing - Nov 1 2019 at 9:12am Copy Link

Kelly Hamblin Thank you for answering. I downloaded and installed the app on my Win7 64-bit machine. I tried to load a comparison. The file I added is .rtf. I got this error:

The content of this view could not be loaded because of following error: The text does not conform to UTF encoding (Unicode 8 bits) . . . nary position 15.

Part of the message could not be read.

I am supposing this is an unsolvable issue because my most important files are .rtf. Too bad. I would have like this application.

Nov 1 2019 at 9:51pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin If you are OK, you can send me your .rtf and I'll check what is happening

Ellie Computing - Nov 2 2019 at 6:13am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi, if you have a question feel free to ask.

Ellie Computing - Aug 18 2020 at 7:38am Copy Link

Kelly Hamblin I've been waiting for this one. Best software of its kind. So glad to see it here this morning. I do however have a question.

When I had troubles the last time this was offered on Bits, the company responded by fixing the program and sending me a link so I could try it. I still have the Pro version 2.5 (build 207) trial installed. After I purchase today can I just register the application I have or do I have to download and install again?

Aug 18 2020 at 7:47am Copy Link

Armel Asselin You can keep your version installed and enter the code through "Help / Register" menu

Ellie Computing - Aug 18 2020 at 7:58am Copy Link

Kelly Hamblin Thanks. Love your software. I was using Beyond Compare, a nice program, but it doesn't merge. Ellié Computing Merge is fully featured and saves me so much work. A huge perk, IMO, is the Help file that I don't have to open a browser to use. I love that, and the UI is clean and out of the way, unlike those big ribbon hogs. Lovely. You've made my day.

Aug 18 2020 at 8:09am Copy Link

Armel Asselin thank you Kelly :-)

Ellie Computing - Aug 18 2020 at 8:38am Copy Link

Eric Dear Armel,

A few minutes back I purchased a copy of the Pro version of the software.

According to Ellié's Website, the current version is 2.5b207.

Odd enough however, the version I received a link to download is 2.5b205 ...

Mistake? Should I install the trial 207 over the registered 205? (The program doesn't seem to have a "Check for updates NOW" option ...)

Kindly advise.

Thanks in advance for your effective attention to this matter,

Eric

Aug 18 2020 at 3:06pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Good morning, I check the version problem.

Ellie Computing - Aug 18 2020 at 10:20pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin When you click "Check for Updates" in the "Help / Ellié Computing online" menu, does it present you the version 2.5.207 ?

The latest version is well 2.5.207. It was released to our website a few days before the promotion and was not there when we prepared the promotion.

The only difference is a bug fix in the RTF text extraction program.

Ellie Computing - Aug 18 2020 at 11:30pm Copy Link

L. D. User As this program is Licensed on a Per User basis... how many personally owned computers am I permitted to install it on?

Does the License allow me to install it on ALL of my own PCs? Or am I limited to a certain number of my own computers per License?

Aug 18 2020 at 11:31pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin You can install on all your computers. Of course, "your" means you are the user as well ;-)

If you own 50 computers because you own a company with 50 employees, you should get a licence per employee ;-)

Ellie Computing - Aug 18 2020 at 11:37pm Copy Link

L. D. User Great... thanks for the quick response!

I live alone so yes I am indeed the only user of the PCs I own.

Aug 18 2020 at 11:50pm Copy Link

Eric @Armel:
Hi Armel,

Indeed, the option to update to 207 is there.

I updated a few minutes ago (BTW: it asked to close Windows Explorer for updating - is this not a bit extreme?)

All the best,

Eric

Aug 19 2020 at 1:06am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Eric:
About closing Windows Explorer, not really, that is because the Explorer extension would not be loaded until login/logout/restart.

I think that just restarting Windows Explorer is less anoying :-/

Regards

Ellie Computing - Aug 19 2020 at 2:45am Copy Link

Chuck What happened to version 3?

Aug 19 2020 at 5:23pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin @Chuck the version 3 was very ambitious.
Part of it exists and is actually sold as a command line tool for comparison servers behind certain websites.

I don't know if it will ever be released fully. These days I'm renovating the 2.x serie buildchain.

Regards

Ellie Computing - Aug 19 2020 at 9:59pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi, if you have got a question, don't hesitate. Armel

Ellie Computing - Dec 19 2020 at 1:16pm Copy Link

HJ User The description says that "Ellié Computing Merge works with Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Text, and RTF documents.". That is pretty much what the "Features" tabs says.

The description also says: ". . .. these files, images, and folders are ALMOST the same, but not quite. That's where Ellié Computing Merge steps in and makes your world a much better place!."

So:
1. Does the program sort out duplicate folders and graphics?

2. Is the use of the word "merge" appropriate, since this actually seems to be a method by which duplicates can be eliminated and different versions can be kept?

3. It is not unusual to have a situation where there are two or more versions of a document. For example, in one I may have corrected spelling and punctuation, and in the other I may have made substantive changes. My impression is that this program is supposed to point out the differences and then the user must decide whether and how to reconcile the differences.

It is not clear to me how this program differs from the version comparison tools that exist within Microsoft Word.

3. Does the program work with MS Office documents other than MS Word?

4. Does this program have any use with regard to sorting out pdfs or emails or database files?

Dec 19 2020 at 9:28pm Copy Link

Nico Westerdale Great News! Ellie Computing has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy!

BitsDuJour Admin - Dec 20 2020 at 12:11am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hello HJ,

1. Not natively, the software is primarily a diff/merge tool. Its target is to compare and merge files or folder structures that you want to finally get identical / in sync by comparing their evolution. ECMerge can be programmed in ECMAScript and we developed macros that actually find/sort files and list those with same name, similar size; and lists those identical but again it is not its primary purpose.

2. For text files and folder structures, e.g. for developers, this is indeed a real merge that is handled. For images, binary, Word, OpenOffice Text and so on, this is indeed a comparison, you then choose by yourself what you want to do, knowing the ECMerge does not edit this kind of files

3. currently the target is text oriented office files: Word (doc/docx), OO Text, RTF...

4. not really for "sorting". With respect to PDF, it is useful in combination with pdftotext tool. One example is when you send a Word file to a contractor and they send back a PDF with their modifications in there: you can pinpoint in a matter of seconds what they changed exactly and make your mind. On contracts with dozens of pages it is absolutely wonderful. The rendering is just text, but the feature is there, after all the rendering is 1% of the value.

Regards
Armel

Ellie Computing - Dec 20 2020 at 2:37am Copy Link

M User So, can I create a new picture by comparing 3 pictures and using some parts of one picture and other parts of the other both pictures?

I checked the changelogs and beside one small bugfix in 2020 the last updates were from 2015. Do you intend to update your program with new features in the next time?

Dec 20 2020 at 3:44am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi M user,

With respect to picture, you will be able to copy the original images, or the comparison result (that is the highlights if the changes), there is no merge capacity.

We still intend to do updates, first system level (new javascript engine, keeping the soft working on recent version of the OSes), then the text and binary comparison and merge engine should be updated to reflect what is the real power of ECMerge 3. All of this takes much time unfortunately.

Ellie Computing - Dec 20 2020 at 4:17am Copy Link

Kat D Was curious about difference between Standard and Pro. Here's the link I found: http://www.elliecomputing...009498.asp
Thought I'd share since it took a while to find it.
Looks interesting!

Dec 20 2020 at 5:32am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Yes, indeed the big difference is the 3-way merge.
It allows the software to take decisions about what to keep in compared files, introducing comparisons with respect to a common third file that is called the 'ancestor'. It is called that way because it is the common work on which the two other are based.

Ellie Computing - Dec 20 2020 at 8:08am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hi, I am Armel from Ellie Computing.

If you have questions, please ask.

Currently, I am working on a new version of the comparison algorithm.

Ellie Computing - Nov 24 2021 at 2:04am Copy Link

R W Despite your disclaimer, the links to this deal say "3-way". You should change your graphics to say "2-way".

Nov 24 2021 at 5:54am Copy Link

Armel Asselin The pro version is really 3-way.

Is there something misleading somewhere?

Ellie Computing - Nov 24 2021 at 10:10am Copy Link

R W Yes.
Both the BitsDuJour email and the graphic at the top of this page say “3 files” “$14.70”. That’s not correct.

Nov 24 2021 at 10:26am Copy Link

Armel Asselin I'll check with BitsDuJour team what we can do with respect to that.

Ellie Computing - Nov 24 2021 at 12:57pm Copy Link

Kelly Hamblin Love, love this software. Was able to purchase it when it was on sale last year. Thanks again.

Nov 24 2021 at 1:04pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin Thank you ??

Ellie Computing - Nov 24 2021 at 1:19pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin My smiley became "??"

It was : thank you :-)

Ellie Computing - Nov 24 2021 at 1:24pm Copy Link

Tazzie Does this work with Windows 11?

Apr 7 at 1:40am Copy Link

lisba f It doesn't work with UNICODE (neither 10 or 11 Win.)

Apr 7 at 11:07am Copy Link

Armel Asselin Hello, I am Armel from Ellie Computing.

Yes it works on Windows 10 and 11.

@lisba f Can you send us a screen copy or something that could help us fix the problem? It happened that we had problems with Cyrilic characters.

Regards

Ellie Computing - Apr 7 at 11:44pm Copy Link

Armel Asselin We are currently working on improving the diff algorithm, the ECMAScript engine, renewing the base framework and upgrading build chain. It will give birth to a 2.6 serie, probably 64 bit only.

Ellie Computing - Apr 8 at 1:07am Copy Link

lisba f Armel, unfortunatelly I uninstalled the program, but you can get perhaps yourself a classical Greek text (e.g. from https://www.ellopos.net/e...43&page=64) and see what you can do. I have tried DeltaWalker and ABBYY Finereader 15 (I stick with the latter that's more user friendly and has a modern UI) but both need improvements.

Apr 8 at 2:20am Copy Link

Armel Asselin We'll do, thanks

Ellie Computing - Apr 8 at 3:44am Copy Link

Armel Asselin @lisba f, here on my Win10, Cyrillic works in the editor (copied text from the page you sent), I tried to send a screen copy but I cannot here.

Ellie Computing - Apr 8 at 4:55am Copy Link

lisba f Armel, the page I sent contains only Greek and English, in two columns, I don't see why Cyrillic appears. In any case my question is about Greek not Cyrillic.

Apr 8 at 11:31am Copy Link

Visitor-2014 @Armel Asselin: Unfortunately I have to confirm that Unicode does not work (at least not with Greek characters). I have tried it with two texts/documents:

a) the text linked above by lisba f (ancient Greek). I copied some lines into a txt.file. In the following screenshot you can see the result in ECMerge:Only a few words are visible, the rest are these strange black lines:
https://imgur.com/a/fqXgXvH
(= link to screenshot)

b) the other document is a rtf-file from myself (containing both Latin and modern Greek characters). There is the same problem as with the above one.

Another comparing software shows all characters without any problems. So there must be some issue with ECMerge.

Apr 8 at 6:17pm Copy Link

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