Comments on: Create Digest http://www.exactfile.com Making sure that what you hash is what you get. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:28:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bossi http://www.exactfile.com/using-exactfile/create-digest/comment-page-1/#comment-1484 Bossi Sat, 14 May 2011 08:35:35 +0000 http://www.exactfile.com/?page_id=114#comment-1484 (One of) The best hashing tool(s) I've found in my extensive research and the first that flawlessly meets all requirements for my needs, such as full unicode support, variety of supported hash algorithms and processing of recursive directory structures. While jDigest does a great job as well, it did falsely return mismatches for a few files in rare cases. Two things that I really liked to have though (this is meant to be constructive feedback of course) are A) a 'data throughput gauge' when hashing single files/directories and B) the option to choose multiple folders/files to be hashed in one run (rather than only one folder or the whole drive, which forces you to hash all containing files and folders on the root level of that drive). Just my 20 cents~ and with or without those ExactFile is a fantastic tool and handles files with utf-8 encoded names very well (which still seems to be a problem with many hashing tools - including hashdeep/md5deep). Thanks for offering that fantastic tool for free! (One of) The best hashing tool(s) I’ve found in my extensive research and the first that flawlessly meets all requirements for my needs, such as full unicode support, variety of supported hash algorithms and processing of recursive directory structures.
While jDigest does a great job as well, it did falsely return mismatches for a few files in rare cases.

Two things that I really liked to have though (this is meant to be constructive feedback of course) are
A) a ‘data throughput gauge’ when hashing single files/directories and
B) the option to choose multiple folders/files to be hashed in one run (rather than only one folder or the whole drive, which forces you to hash all containing files and folders on the root level of that drive).

Just my 20 cents~ and with or without those ExactFile is a fantastic tool and handles files with utf-8 encoded names very well (which still seems to be a problem with many hashing tools – including hashdeep/md5deep).

Thanks for offering that fantastic tool for free!

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.exactfile.com/using-exactfile/create-digest/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Jeremy Sun, 02 May 2010 15:12:01 +0000 http://www.exactfile.com/?page_id=114#comment-597 Although the program works very well I would like a feature that allows me to save a 'checksum digest' within each subfolder automatically. I have about half a million files in many levels of subfolders and when I run the program it tries to generate a list for all the files on the entire drive in the root folder - if it automatically saved it in each relavant subfolder my problem would be solved. As a side note it would be good for some people who like to save a checksum .md5 for each file name when doing an indepth scan. Keep up the good work! Although the program works very well I would like a feature that allows me to save a ‘checksum digest’ within each subfolder automatically.
I have about half a million files in many levels of subfolders and when I run the program it tries to generate a list for all the files on the entire drive in the root folder – if it automatically saved it in each relavant subfolder my problem would be solved.
As a side note it would be good for some people who like to save a checksum .md5 for each file name when doing an indepth scan.
Keep up the good work!

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