Firstly thanks very much for this software.. I have been using EXF rather than the Gui version to take away the chance of user error, and also to instruct end users on using a check method correctly.

Can you please tell me.. is there a way to have a progress bar of sorts, whilst EXF is generating hashes?

Because I have used batch files with this, a user only sees a blank screen and assumes that it has “crashed” :0)

Thanks again!

Many Thanks
Gomezie

I did post a positive note about ExactFile over on the other web site I mentioned. After thinking about the way photographers are likely to use your software a bit more, I have a feature request: Support “shortcuts” to folders as if they were native folders in your Create Digest and Check Digest scans.

This would enable multi-volume collection support in the non-”Professional” versions of XP, Vista and probably Win 7. It would also defuse some probable objections.

As you may know, it’s increasingly popular to shoot in “RAW” mode with digital SLR’s. There are lots of image processing and quality advantages to doing so over JPEGs but it does produce lots of data. My “old” Canon XTi records about 10 MB of compressed data per shot and my newer Canon 50D records about 30 MB per shot. Nikon, Olympus and … SLR cameras produce similar amounts.

The need for multi-volume disk support is here today for some. I, and many others, are likely to need it in the near future. So if this request is reasonably easy to add, please consider it for your next version.

Thanks,

Dan

There are quite a few folks interested in validating images over time as part of Digital Asset Management. A guy named Peter Krogh has a nice web site to discuss the topic at http://thedambook.com/

Yes the site name was picked to advertise a book, but the forum is also a good place to go to ask questions or discuss DAM issues. In any case, I’m going to go over and suggest that folks take advantage of your wonderful software.

Thanks very much,

Dan

p.s. It was easy to make a small donation via PayPal by clicking your Donate button on the home page ;-}

Again, thank you for all the great work so far!

Foo Bar :
Can you make a Linux port,

No, at least not for a while. If Embarcadero gets a cross-platform compiler in place (as they are planning), I might do a command-line version. But I don’t use Linux so this will be an extremely low priority for me.

Len Linkens :
I am trying to use exf within a batch file. The program runs correctly but then exits the bat file without continuing on to the next command.. Is there a switch or something that would correct this behavior?
Len

I’ll have to do some testing to see what is causing that.

Len