Comments on: exf 1.0.1.6 released

By: khng

khng — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:01:15 +0000

@khng Amendment to point 1, this should be caused by the name of the file instead of the name of the folder. Suggestion to the generated checksum file, it should be sorted by file name instead of by random (so that user can split the checksum file mannual

By: khng

khng — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:20:38 +0000

Hi,

Thank for your great work, but I have some problems with the verify function:

1. when I open the .sha1 file in a folder whose name contain non-ascii item, it uses md5 instead of sha1 to versify to file.
2. it sometime complaint file not found even this is not the case, as in the log it incorrectly show the file name, e.g. “第22集 – 芊芊��探皇宮受重傷.flv” instead of “第22集 – 芊芊夜探皇宮受重傷.flv”.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:25:49 +0000

Brandon,

I found this site when searching for a replacement for hkSFV. That was a great program with many nice features, but it was abandoned, and doesn’t work well with multiprocessing. One nice feature it has is queuing, so starting another hash just puts an entry in its work queue and does not cause disk trashing.

I just ran exf on a 2TB external USB drive, and got the following:

C:\bin>exf -r -d F:\ -otf C:\bin\FD02T00_20100307.md5 -omd5 -md5 -mt 1 *.*
; *** Warning: 11086 files found, but only 11085 files sucessfully hashed.

C:\bin>

How can I determine what file was not successfully hashed? I didn’t notice anything in the .md5 file, but I don’t know what I should be looking for.

Thanks for sharing your software.

Jon

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:28:41 +0000

There is a deselect option. Right-click the checksum methods area and select “Select None.”

It is highly unlikely there will ever be a Linux version of ExactFile.

By: Feroze

Feroze — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:23:11 +0000

Hey Brandon,
I really like your program and its GUI. One thing which would make it great is a deselect all button in the make checksums. It’s rather painful deselecting each box.

Also it would be nice if you could make a native Linux port. I use Ubuntu often and find the BASH commands too long. There is NO GUI app in linux to do this. It would be great if yours could be the first

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:42:29 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for creating this app!

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:27:57 +0000

Thanks for the unicode, I’m using 1.0.1.6 command line version. Creation of checksum files works fine, as you say, the redirected output to a file is fine. Both from cmd line and script.

However, if you redirect the output of the CHECKING of a checksum file (exf.exe -c theChecksumFileInCWD > c.txt) it sometimes corrupts the command prompt, yet the file turns out OK. The main problem is that if you do the same from a script the output file messes up the unicode chars.

So it seems, the creation of of checksum file is fine for unicode, but checking the checksum file is still buggy as far as unicode goes. It works with > at the command line, but not from a script… the unicode chars get corrupted in the output txt file.

Perhaps add the -otf argument to checking as well?

By: ps

ps — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:52:34 +0000

Thank you for your reply, and thanks for considering TTH as a format. Incorperating it into a future version (even a distant one) would be much appreciated.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:49:27 +0000

I don’t have any current plans to implement TTH support, but I’ll add it to the wish list.

By: ps

ps — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:30:44 +0000

A app such as this one that works with Unicode files would be great. In fact, your program incorporates several features my current sumcheck application does not. I hesitate to install it, however, because it does not validate one of the most common (for me in any case) sumcheck values – TTH. Is there any plan to employ the TTH format in a future version?