[QUOTE]Originally posted by eva2000
Araxis merge better than Beyond compare??

damn nice :) took me ages to reinstall the hacks that i use :(
must look out for that prog :)

http://www.araxis.com/merge/

for complete details of it, downloading free trail for the mo :) hopefully i'll like it:D

It's a nice program, but for $124.00 it's way overpriced for my taste.

That's where Beyond Compare comes in. It works well enough and it's only $30. :)

2.21 good

I just got this but it seems to be like a big learning curve. Can you explain the easiest way to re-install existing hacks with it?

Extract the upload/ folder from the zip file into a folder named original221.
Now use Araxis to compare with the original221 folder, and your current forum (if you don't have it offline, download it).

Now you'll see all the files in the folders.
Files that have the blue color means there are changes in those files.

Double click on the blue files, one by one, and copy all the changes over.
Making sure you don't ruin any of your existing hacks.

That's it really.

Thank you very much!

I prefer to use an orignal version before and an original new version and look at the differences instead of looking at the hacked old one and a new one as the hacks will also show in differences and its hard to remember if you installed a hack which changed that or is it a bug fix.

Scott