I've written DropboxDiff, a Chrome extension which allows you to compare different versions of text files you have on Dropbox. It basically triggers a diff tool you have installed on your local machine already, which you must configure.
- On the Dropbox website, browse to the "Previous versions" page of any text file.
- A "Diff" column has been added where you can select which two versions to compare.
- Click the "Diff" button.
- If a diff tool is not yet configured, the options page opens where you can specify one. If you don't have one installed already, I recommend kdiff3. The setting is accessible from Tools > Extensions > DropboxDiff > Options.
- Otherwise, your diff tool should open.
This should run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Please let me know if any issues come up.
Get DropboxDiff.
22 comments:
Cool tool dude. Would be cool to see it as a firefox extension :p
@Robbie - will make a note of it; thanks for the comment.
Really nice work on the DropboxDiff Chrome Extension - it's so cool and a real time saver. I can't tell you how many times I've been downloading files from the dropbox website into a temporary folder, then running diffmerge on them. (btw this works great with diffmerge too). So thanks for an excellent extension!
I LOVE YOU!
It's broken on the new site... :(
@Anonymous - I was afraid of that. I'm still waiting for my Dropbox account to be upgraded; I'm still seeing the old version. I'll get a fix out as soon as I can.
Hey Vic, awesome little tool. Eagerly awaiting the fix for the new site...
THANK YOU !!!
@Vic - try replacing the www.dropbox.com with www2.dropbox.com I know that since the upgrade this is the url i'm redirected to.
@Anonymous, yes I tried that but it still redirects.
I contacted Dropbox Support, and this is what they told me:
"We are currently rolling out the new redesign of the Dropbox gradually and don't offer the ability to upgrade user accounts to the new version. We should be upgrading most accounts in the very near future."
If you want to help me out, could you send me the HTML source of one of your "previous versions" pages with DropboxDiff turned off? Then I'd know how to fix it.
Well it looks like my account finally updated to the latest version of the website. But the weird thing is, DropboxDiff still seems to work for me.
Let me know if you are still seeing issues or not. If so, please email me the source of one of your "Previous versions" pages and I'll take a look.
Sounds awesome — but do you have any plans for a Safari version?
Re: Safari, no immediate plans, but I will look into it at some point. There is a chance it will be a better platform than Firefox, if its sandboxing is similar to Chrome's.
The Chinese characters become Garbled when I use dropboxdiff. but when I use kdiff3 along with the same files downloaded from dropbox, it works.
please email me if you know the reason. Thank you in advance.
meicale@163.com
Does this work on the lastest site?
because I'm getting an error
"Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'cellIndex' of undefined chrome-extension://aefdkgcdokdiaoppobphjogcilaaakka/content.js:143
(anonymous function) chrome-extension://aefdkgcdokdiaoppobphjogcilaaakka/content.js:143
(anonymous function) chrome-extension://aefdkgcdokdiaoppobphjogcilaaakka/content.js:189
"
I can provide the full HTML of the page if you wish?
@Nathan - thanks for the heads up. Version 1.0.2.5 should fix this. Please let me know if it doesn't work for you.
@Nathan, whoops, forget 1.0.2.5. Version 1.0.2.6 should work on Windows.
It's working brilliantly, thank you soo much.
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Nathan
have you considered integrating it with an in-browser diff tool like this? https://github.com/austincheney/Pretty-Diff
@Jon, yes, it's in the queue. So far I was considering https://github.com/cemerick/jsdifflib but I'll take a look at Pretty-Diff too; thanks for the input.
Victor, great tool, I've used it for a few weeks now and it's been very helpful. I've now got windows 8 however and "This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled" at the chrome web store.
Search reveals something about using Tincr and it no longer available from win8?
Anyway, just a heads up.
@Sven, thanks! Yes, it appears this type of extension is not allowed in Windows 8, but supposedly you can work around it by running Chrome in compatibility mode for Windows 7. Something like: right-click the Chrome shortcut > Properties > Compatibility > "Run this program in compatibility mode for:". Reference is here (which you probably already saw).
An in-browser diff tool is on my list of things to do, but I haven't been able to get around to it...
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