Thanks gazumped. Sounds like you don't open your Evernote many many times off-network? I do, that's why I need it so I have all my notes when I get back to network.
Thanks for the "new window" tip. I looked for "new window" function under the "WINDOW" menu - it's not there. I found "New Evernote WIndow"under the "FILE" menu after your suggestion, THANKS, that helps a LOT.
A TIP! -- RENAME your note before deleting it, because it's pretty easy to get confused and delete the WRONG one. I ended up deleting the "conflicting changes" notebook, which had my GOOD file in it but the DELETE file was outside in the regular notebooks. Easy mixup because Evernote doesn't change the names, or append "older".
For example when you decide which note will be deleted, append "-old" to it (rename it to"projects-old" And rename the conflicts file too with "projects-old" in the name
Anyway---- so can't do this comparison on the phone. And you won't know if your phone got on network for long enough to log a discrepancy, unless you LOOK for it. I dislike managing files for a computer,,,,computer should be doing this FOR YOU. But I'll try to learn it. Got part of it solved by the 'new evernote window' thing and for that I'm happy.