Dropbox version diff

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There are many times that I have wished that I could see the differences between two versions of a file in the version history. A great resource to have and one that should be considered a must-have. We need to be able to identify the specific changes easily not simply that one document is different to another. I spend hours sometimes wading through excel worksheets playing spot the differences. I am copying current files out of one folder into another, planning to keep the old files in the first folder as an archive.

Would like to be able to compare the new folder to the old folder so others can review what I chose to copy and what I left behind. I think that this feature should definitely be implemented for text files. It would support the growing number of people who use code. My main concern about giving collaborators edit access to my files is that I would find it difficult to stay on top of all their edits, however small their edits may be.

The current solution with Dropbox is to download the previous version, then use WinMerge to compare the two text files. That's too time-consuming. I have to resort to using GitHub, so that I can easily see changes to code that I share. You must be a registered user to add a comment. If you've already registered, sign in.

Otherwise, register and sign in. That means you can go back and recover a single deleted sentence from a text file, for example, but this feature also has the potential to radically change how you work. With a free Mac app called Revisions for Dropbox, you can really dig in and use this Dropbox feature properly. To find previous versions of a file, you must visit the Dropbox website. The quickest way is to right-click the file in the Finder , and choose Version History from the Dropbox section of the contextual menu.

Dropbox will launch in Safari, with that file already in view. Click one to look at it. You must click and view them one by one. Revisions is an app that takes the raw revisions from your Dropbox and does something useful with them. When you first launch Revisions, it asks you to connect it to your Dropbox.