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X-Ways BeyondCompare X-Tension

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I was recently working a project where I had a bunch of files from different evidence objects with different hash values, but seemingly identical contents. I found myself tediously exporting sets of files and running them in Beyond Compare (my preferred text compare tool) to see what the differences were. After an hour of frustration, I decided to code up a quick X-Tension to make my life easier… hope you find it useful.

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The X-Tension allows an examiner to select any two files in X-Ways and quickly send them to Beyond Compare for review. Beyond Compare, from Scooter Software, is a 3rd party file comparison tool that has built-in support/viewers for the comparison of binary/hex, tab and comma separated files, graphic/image files, registry data, source code, executables, Microsoft Word/Excel, and Adobe PDF documents. Plug-ins for additional file types can be downloaded from here.

This X-Tension is free for both personal and commercial use and requires Microsoft’s .Net Framework v3.5 and a valid license/installation for Beyond Compare.

Note Although this X-Tension was specifically designed for use with Beyond Compare, in theory any application that takes two file names as arguments from the command line should work (i.e. program.exe file1 file2).

Download links, installation steps, and screenshots all available here
https://bitbucket.org/4Discovery/x-ways-beyondcompare-x-tension

Feedback, comments, complaints, and bugs appreciated.

 
Posted : 15/07/2014 1:37 am
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