Lizerium Find Changes — a console tool for comparing two versions of a file structure, generating a change list, and preparing a ready-to-deploy update folder.

• Table of Contents
  • Overview
  • Features
  • Technologies
  • How It Works
  • Configuration Structure
    • Example config.json
    • Parameters
  • Modes
    • 1. Update Generation Mode
      • Output:
    • 2. Missing Files Extraction Mode
  • Output Structure
    • manifest.json
    • Update Folder
    • Missing Files Folder
  • Example Scenario
    • Input
    • Config
    • Result
  • Other
  • Author

The tool compares:

• directories
• files
• new items
• deleted items
• modified files
• moved / reused files

After analysis, it can:

• generate a manifest.json
• build an update folder with only required files
• extract files missing from the new version

• 📁 Directory comparison
• 📄 Detection of new, deleted, and modified files
• 🔁 Identification of moved or reused files
• 🏗 Generation of ready-to-use update folder
• 📜 manifest.json generation
• 🧩 Extraction of files missing in the new version
• ⚡ Simple configuration via config.json

• C#
• .NET
• Console Application
• System.Text.Json

The program uses two directories:

• Before — previous version
• After — new version

It determines:

• added folders
• removed folders
• changed files
• newly created files
• deleted files
• files with identical content but different paths (Retranslate)

Then it generates:

• a manifest.json with all changes
• an update folder with the correct structure

The program uses:

config.json

If it does not exist, it will be created automatically.

{
	"Before": "C:\\Builds\\OldVersion",
	"After": "C:\\Builds\\NewVersion",
	"Version": "99.3.12",
	"IsMissingFilesMode": false
}

• Example

• Before — path to previous version
• After — path to new version
• Version — output update folder name
• IsMissingFilesMode — mode switch

If:

"IsMissingFilesMode": false

The program:

1. Compares Before and After
2. Generates manifest.json
3. Creates an update folder using Version
4. Copies only required changed / new / reused files

• manifest.json
• update folder, e.g.:

99.3.12/

If:

"IsMissingFilesMode": true

The program:

1. Compares Before and After
2. Finds files present in old version but missing in new
3. Copies them into:

MISSING/

Useful for:

• file loss analysis
• incomplete build detection
• recovery
• manual inspection

Contains a list of changes.

Change types:

• Added
• Deleted
• Changed
• Unchanged
• Retranslate

Example:

99.3.12/

Contains only files required for deployment.

If enabled:

MISSING/

C:\Builds\Freelancer_99.3.11
C:\Builds\Freelancer_99.3.12

{
	"Before": "C:\\Builds\\Freelancer_99.3.11",
	"After": "C:\\Builds\\Freelancer_99.3.12",
	"Version": "99.3.12",
	"IsMissingFilesMode": false
}

manifest.json
99.3.12/

These can be used for packaging and deployment (e.g., in Lizerium Launcher).

Developed and maintained by Dvurechensky Part of the Lizerium ecosystem

• Website: https://dvurechensky.pro
• GitHub: https://github.com/Dvurechensky