# Kopia ui -- diff

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-diff/2856>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [April 27, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-diff/2856 "2024-04-27T18:43:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![darren](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/darren/32/1037_2.png) [@darren](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/darren)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-diff/2856/1 "2024-04-27T18:43:44Z")

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Would be nice in kopiaUI if you could select two snapshots, hit a button to diff, and get a ui-output, maybe color coded, of what was added, deleted, or modified.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kopia/original/2X/5/5cfeeb392b0842cfc9c85d65ac4c29d3eac32ec6.png)

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**Author:** ![iBackup](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/ibackup/32/355_2.png) [@iBackup](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/iBackup)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-diff/2856/2 "2024-04-28T21:07:22Z")

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extract snapshots into two different directories 001 and 002 and run

```auto
diff -qr 001/ 002/

```

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**Author:** ![darren](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/darren/32/1037_2.png) [@darren](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/darren)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-diff/2856/3 "2024-04-28T21:26:59Z")

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Well I know I can compare two extracted directories but I don’t really have the space or inclination to do that. Especially not if I want to quickly diff a few snaps.

Kopia cli has a diff command where you can

`kopia diff hash1 hash2`

And get a text echo of what has changed. You can copy the hashes from that very screen.

However with regard to a kopiaui feature, I just think it makes sense to be able to get that same output having selected two snaps.

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**Author:** ![uew93h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5e9695/32.png) [@uew93h](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/uew93h)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-diff/2856/4 "2026-05-12T15:04:30Z")

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You about to suggest the same then saw this post.

Also move this to feature requests