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If you don't display folders in the comparison, you can't right click "exclude temporarily", which is quite convenient for me.

I simply think that file inside folders that are marked equal shouldn't be deleted, unless the files themselves are marked equal to their counterpart as well...

- Mario

What if any delete action would *never* delete folders that aren't empty (unless explicitly or optionally specified)?
Wouldn't this fit?

This is the old usability issue that folders are also considered "=" and are part of the list.


This behavior makes no sense, then. The folders must be different since some files only exist on one side, thus using the filters to only show '=' line items should not expose the parent folder at ...

Ouch... what can be done to prevent this kind of accident then?

This is really prone to cause file loss...

Happened again today... I had two folders with many identical files, and some files only on one of the two compared folders.

After content comparison, clicked the "=" button to show only the identical ones, then CTRL-A to select all the ones on one side (expecting only the equal files be selected ...

Hello, I found this issue, for me it's quite unexpected and also dangerous because it can easily cause file loss.

I compare two folders with "content" options, then I select the "=" button to only see the files that were found perfectly equal.

I select some of them (shift or ctrl-click) then press ...