Mouse Operations
In every view
| Wheel | Scroll vertically |
| Ctrl + Wheel | Scroll vertically by a whole screen per notch (fast) |
| Right button + drag | Scroll vertically (grab the listing and move it) |
| Right double-click | Back to the previous selection (same as Esc) |
| Drag the center separator | Resize the two panes; double-click centers it |
| Drop files from the Explorer | Drop two files or folders at once to compare
them; drop a single one onto a pane to replace that side and keep the other. A dropped
.lic file installs a license instead |
File comparison
| Left button (click or drag) | Mark lines on one or both sides — the marked
area is what Copy,
Paste and
Delete operate on |
| Drag the marked area across the separator | Copy those lines onto the
corresponding area of the other side — see
Merging Changes. The source side stays unchanged;
the receiving side has to be writable |
Directory comparison
| Double-click a row | Open that file pair for comparison; entries inside an
archive are extracted to a temporary file first |
| Click a column title | Sort by that column (on the clicked side); a second
click on the same title reverses the direction — see
Directory Sorting |
| Double-click a column separator | Fit the column left of it to its content |
| Right-click a row | Windows Explorer context menu for that file, folder or
archive (release the button without moving the mouse — moving it scrolls instead) |
| Right-click the empty area | A small view menu with the most common display
commands |
Deleting Thumbs.db on a network share may fail with
“the file is in use in Diffoniq”. That is Windows, not Diffoniq: the
shell’s context menu runs inside the application, and when its delete
confirmation renders the item’s icon, the Windows thumbnail cache opens the
folder’s Thumbs.db as a thumbnail store and keeps it open —
so the delete that follows finds the file locked by the very process it runs in.
Explorer shows the same behaviour on network folders. The cure is the Windows policy
“Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files”
(User Configuration › Administrative Templates › Windows Components ›
File Explorer; registry
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\DisableThumbsDBOnNetworkFolders = 1),
after which the file deletes normally.
See also: Keyboard Shortcuts
↑ Usage