Originally posted by X-Fan Not everyone. I've tried Beyond Compare (and Araxis Merge) and found them both to be more hassle than they're worth. Neither program would do the changes 100% correctly, as I always got a variety of errors from various files after using those two programs.
You just have to know how to use them properly. Depending on how heavily hacked your forum is, you cannot just use their automated compare and change functions - you need to go through the code WITH the program and only transfer the NEW bits, not the different bits.
Originally posted by Erwin You just have to know how to use them properly. Depending on how heavily hacked your forum is, you cannot just use their automated compare and change functions - you need to go through the code WITH the program and only transfer the NEW bits, not the different bits.
Yes, I know. I never used the auto-compare function. But even after manually going through the code I was still getting errors.
Well I've used Beyond Compare to make a list of code changes between versions 2.2.5 and 2.2.7, but since there are apparently template changes in 2.2.7 as well I'm hoping someone can help the cause by providing a list of those changes. Then we can combine my list and yours, and get someone to test it out on an unhacked test board (as I don't have a test board).