Music in different file formats - how do I find out which are missing from one folder

[stevewestern]

Can anyone help me please..?
I have a lot of music in flac format in one folder on one hard drive ( 28,821 files in 2813 folders) and a lot of them in another folder in ALAC format (17,289 files in 2,647 folders) on a second hard drive.
How can I find out which ones are missing from the ALAC folder ?

Do I just delete them all from the ALAC folder and then try to copy the entire flac folder into the ALAC folder and then convert them into ALAC files ?

Surely there must be an easier way..?

 

[Deleted member 49549]

Are the file names identical apart from the suffix?

If so, then you could print the folder contents of both directories to a text file, import these into excel, then do a lookup from one list to see if the name appears on the other list. That should give you a list of files that are not present in the other directory.

 

[ziggy©]

Download DiffMerge to use to compare the two folders. To use it just right click on the flac folder and select "Remember folder", then right click on the ALAC folder and select "compare ALAC with FLAC" then just click compare.

http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/

It will show you all the files that are in one folder but not in the other or if the files are in both folders but are different (by size, content etc).

 

[stevewestern]

Thanks for the replies guys - they may help next time...!

I had some spare time this morning so actually deleted the ALAC files and am in the process of copying them all and converting them - got another 13 hours to go and my poor CPU is working at 100% almost all the time !!