Please update for Beyond Compare 5.

[michaelakin]

Please update to add Beyond Compare 5 and also fix the parameters to be able to effectively compare json files in BC and change the method of comparing to sort the it in beyond compare.

https://forum.scootersoftware.com/forum/beyond-compare-discussion/general-aa/91626-windows-explorer-shell-extension-not-working-in-3rd-party-apps?p=94034#post94034

[sabrogden]

Added beyond compare 5 path to the file paths Ditto checks.

https://github.com/sabrogden/Ditto/releases/tag/nightly

FYI you can specify your own path in options - general - advanced - "Diff application path"

What parameters are you looking to be passed to compare json files

[michaelakin]

What parameters are you looking to be passed to compare json files

Thanks for the tip about the diff application path.

I haven't been able to figure out why when I used Beyond Compares Clipboard and compare, I can sort a json file, and when I used Ditto, I cannot.

Here is what I captured for the command line args when launching beyond compare.

Ditto:

Beyond Compare "Clipboard Compare"

I see a few differences, but I don't know why theirs works and Ditto does not.

• BC is going to a different temporary location
• BC has a title
• BC doesn't have quotes around the paths
• BC has a .tmp filename extension.

Here is the actual sorting command they do that fails:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 5\Helpers\JSON\JSON_sorted.bat" "C:\Users\User\Downloads\DittoPortable_64bit_3_24_323_0\Ditto\ClipCompare\ditto_compare_2.txt" "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\BC555A5.tmp""

[sabrogden]

I found the utility that JSON_sorted calls only supports utf8 files, Ditto was passing in unicode files. Updated Ditto to save utf8 files when diffing, the latest is working for me, https://github.com/sabrogden/Ditto/releases/tag/nightly

It opens and then you can select the format JSON sorted.

[michaelakin]

That sounds awesome. Thanks!

[SanderBouwhuis]

Nice, nice, nice. The nightly works with Beyond Compare 5 now (I needed to change the default diff application path for it to work, see the sagbrogden's instructions above).

PS I immediately made a small donation to this project.