ExactFile Usage
ExactFile’s functions are divided into separate pages in the ExactFile application window.
- Single File Checksums: get checksums with any or all hash methods for a single file.
- Create Digest: create a checksum digest file for all of the files in a folder (optionally including subfolders).
- Test Digest: test the files in a digest file (several formats supported) to see if they match checksums.
- Create TestFile Applet: create a digest file and a “TestFiles” mini-application to distribute along with the files. This makes it easy for your clients and users to find out of their CD is damaged, etc.
- Benchmark: see how fast the different hash methods run.
See Settings for basic program-wide options.
sadly there’s no portable version, like the previous predessor..
Is there something you need it to do that the Create TestFiles Applet function doesn’t handle?
Hi,
This is a great product, but I have just come across something strange.
I am reformatting my USB flash drive (FAT32), so I wanted to take all files off, reformat and replace. So I kicked off a check of the drive H: with subfolders enabled and it happily created digests for 8766 files. The trouble is, Windows things there are over 22,000 files. I tried the command line version too and that did the same thing.
Am I doing something incorrectly?
Regards,
Ian Cummings
@Brandon
I can’t speak for CY, but I’d like to add ExactFile to my PortableApps USB stick. I maintain several PCs and I’d rather not have to install and keep current my “utility toolkit” on all of them. If I can simply run them portable, I only have to do updates in one place.
I would also like to vote for the portable version.
Iwouldput it in readonly location on the LAN and run it from there on all computers.
As I use ExactFile mostly for security checks it also makes sense to have it on a bootable USB flash.
Anyway, Cheers for the nice program !
I agree with JavaPilot. I’m always looking for portable apps, and ExactFile would be great to have as a portable app, so I can run on any machine I happen to be using without having to install.
I love ExactFile. Very well thought out, easy to use, and full featured. I have one dig, or question because I don’t understand. I want both a GUI and a CLI. From what I can tell, ExactFile and Exf are different installations. Am I understanding correctly or is there a CLI for ExactFile?
Fine program! Right now i’m testing it on a huge data contents (~2TB). Hope that no any memory overload issues. But i think that is a good idea to add a PAUSE button during digest creation process.