Comments on: I’m still here…

By: The Dude

The Dude — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:23:42 +0000

Hi Brandon, I want to take a moment to thank you for ExactFile. This software is the answer to a long needed file integrity checker. It is just awesome how you can generate a checksum and re-verify a directory if you ever have concerns. Thank you so much.

By the way have you ever thought of a linux version?

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:13:30 +0000

I encountered the problem that I saw in almost every software displaying file paths so far. The “ampersand problem”. They are interpreted as keyboard accelerator (thus underlining the following character). Static text controls for instance have the SS_NOPREFIX style to prevent this.

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:06:50 +0000

@mm.ff I can't confirm the accent problem. I hashed my CD and DVD library recently and files with è in the name were processed fine.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:13:22 +0000

1) Any way to have it save the signature files in one per directory instead od the top of the tree?
reason: I want to generate the md5 signature once and then be able to copy off a part of the tree
for a cd/dvd backup

2) Need a way to traverse the dir tree and check all the signature files as you go.

3) add another request to only update / add the changed / new signauters

By: onebee

onebee — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:16:46 +0000

great tool and have very fast speed. only thing missing is hidden and system files support

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:52:47 +0000

Congratulations on a great little tool- does exactly what is required and is much easier to use and more powerful than other utilities I’ve tried.

As a suggestion for rextending it, it would be nice if it could update an existing digest instead of having to recreate the whole digest all over again. Maybe have “test and upodate” and “update only”options?

Cheers

By: Uli

Uli — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:33:43 +0000

unagi :Hi Brandon. Thanks for this awesome piece of software. I know this is not a support-blog/forum but I’ll still post a question and hope for a (short) reply/hint: Even though ExactFile has been out for a while I still like to use filecheckmd5 in certain scenarios. I’ve been using it with a new external drive lately and it seems like it gives me different results every time I run it. Sometimes “every file appears OK” then after a repeated run (with the same files) some files appear to be corrupted/changed. And every run seems to point out different files as being corrupted. I checked the hard drive with CHDSK and SeaTools and no errors were reported. Any idea what the problem could be here?

By: mm.ff

mm.ff — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:52:47 +0000

Hi Brandon,
Thanks for your great program, which encompasses all the needed functions to manage checksum digests.
However, I found a problem when testing files whose name contains accented characters (in my case the “é” in “Léeme.txt”): ExactFile doesn’t check the file, reporting “file not found”.
In addition, it would be great if you could add a filter to “Test Digest” function, allowing to check -for example- only the files of a subdirectory of the “Base Folder for Files in Digest” (this is useful when the digest contains a lot of files).
Thanks in advance.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:34:40 +0000

When the verbose report is produced for a large number of files (280,000) the report cannot be copied to the clipboard in full. The program does not warn you of this but fails silently. A workaround is to copy the file to the clipboard in about 8 sections, which is difficult.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:33:01 +0000

When running this across a large collection of files (280,000) and the verbose report is produced, the summary showed

“280,000 files in digest file. 9 errors.”

But when copying the report into another program and checking the number of “FAIL MD5″, there were actually more than 2500 files reported to have failed.