Compare Databases
Introduction
The Compare Databases is a tool useful to compare the
contents in two different databases.
The differences (and optionally similarities) will be shown in a view similar to the Album Browser. The compare operation will be done by album.
Using the Compare Databases tool
First of all, select a database which you would like to compare with your active database.
To compare the active database with a Access Database, click the Browse... button to the right of the Access Database radio button and then selecting the database file you would like to compare.
To compare the active database with a MS SQL Server/MS SQL Express database, click the Browse... button to the right of the MS SQL Database radio button. This will open the Open SQL Server Database dialog, which will allow you to select a specific MS SQL Server Database.
To compare the active database with a MySQL Database, click the Browse... button to the right of the MySQL radio button. This will open the Open MySQL Database dialog, which will allow you to select a specific MySQL Database.
Other options
Select the Show albums that exist in both Databases
button to display a list of albums that exists in both Databases.
Select the Show albums that does not exist in the active Database
button to display a list of all albums that does not exist
in the active database, but in the database you selected to compare the
active database with. This option is default.Click the Copy...
button to copy all files from the selected album to a
location selected by you.Click the View Album...
button to view the files and properties
of the selected album.Click the Select... button to select a specific Collection/Volume for the database you selected to compare the database with. This selected Collection/Volume will be used in the compare operation and will allow you to work with a subset of the selected database.