Folder Compare Settings:  Miscellaneous  pro_only

Session >  Session Settings >  Misc

In the absence of alignment overrides, a Folder Compare session aligns files and subfolders by name, left and right.  You can manually change the default alignment.

To force a different alignment:

Click New to add an alignment override.

In the Alignment Override dialog, fill in the Align left file (or folder) and with right file (or folder) fields.  You can use * and ? wildcards in your entries, or enable Regular expression to interpret your entries as replacement-style regular expressions.  Limit to this folder specifies the relative path for the alignment.

Examples:

Align left file (or folder)

... with right file (or folder)

Description

apple.gif

apple.png

Lines up "apple.gif" with "apple.png"

*.gif

*.png

Lines up all GIF files with PNG files of the same name.

IMAGE_*.jpg

My Vacation *.jpg

Lines up files such as IMAGE_01.jpg and IMAGE_02.jpg with "My Vacation 01.jpg" and "My Vacation 02.jpg"

NoteNote  The easiest way to manually align two items in a Folder Compare is to right-click the first item, select Align With, then click the second item.

To override file format associations:

The Enabled file formats list lets you override which file formats will be used by this Folder Compare session.  You can create a custom file format that is enabled for use in this session but disabled in the global list.