Managing Sessions

Beyond Compare automatically saves your most recent sessions so you can come back to them easily.  If you want to retain a session indefinitely, you can save it with a descriptive name.  You can also organize your named sessions within session folders.

The Session menu contains common commands for manipulating the current session.  If you make a change to the parameters of a named session, you will be prompted to save it on exit.

Use the Home view to manage all your sessions in one place.  You can select a saved session and edit its settings in the tabbed control at the right of the session tree.  To rename or delete a session, right-click in the saved sessions tree and select the appropriate command.

A named session can be locked to guard against accidental modifications.  Right-click a named session and select Lock from the context menu.

To change default session settings:

In the Home view's Saved sessions tree, under the Edit session defaults branch, select a session type.  Edit the default settings in the tabbed control at the right of the tree.