CuteFTP Professional User s Guide 

5. Select 

OK. CuteFTP compares all items with the same name and highlight any files 

or folders with time stamps that are different between the server and local folder. 

CuteFTP also highlights items that only exist on one site or the other. 

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O COMPARE FOLDER CONTENTS BY SIZE 

1.  Display a folder in the Local Drives pane. 

2.  Connect to the folder you want to compare in the Remote pane. 

3.  From the menu, choose Tools > Folder Tools > Compare Folder Contents. 

4. Select 

Compare sizes. 

5. Select 

Ignore case to compare all files with the same name, regardless of differing 

upper or lower case letters. 

6. Select OK. CuteFTP compares all items with the same name and highlight any files 

or folders with sizes that are different between the server and local folder. CuteFTP 

also highlights items that only exist on one site or the other. 

Note: 

Once differing files are highlighted, click and drag one file to move all of 

the files together. 

If you clear Ignore case, two files with the same name spelled in 

differing case are treated as two different files. For example, test.txt and 

TEST.txt are considered two different files. If Ignore case is selected, 

test.txt and TEST.txt are considered the same. 

Synchronizing folders 

Use the synchronization tools to automatically make the contents of a remote and local 

folder exactly the same. You can monitor more than one folder, or synchronize multiple 

sites. Just schedule and queue the synchronizations you need. 

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O SYNCHRONIZE FOLDERS

1.  From the menu, choose Tools > Folder Tools > Synchronize Folders.  

2. In 

Enter the local path to synchronize, type in the path, or browse to the local 

folder you want to synchronize. 

3. In 

Enter the remote path to synchronize, type in the path, or browse to the local 

folder you want to synchronize.  

4. In 

Please select the direction of synchronization, choose to Mirror Local, Mirror 

Remote, or Mirror Both. 

Mirror Local keeps the local folder the same and changes the remote folder to match. 

Mirror Remote keeps the remote folder the same and changes the local folder to 

match. 

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