Re-check checksums

masken · Post by **masken** » Thu May 15, 2003 7:13 am

When I've made a checksum (MD5) for some files, and then burned them to CD, I want to verify the CD with the help of the checksum file safed on the CD.

Since I created the checksum on HD before burning, hkSFV has cached the results for those filenames.

I'd like a shell-extension option where one could "re-check" the checksums. Ie; bypass the cache.

Post by **Big-O Ryan** » Thu May 15, 2003 10:16 am

Underneath the "Tools" menu in hkSFV, there is a checkbox for "Use Cached Results". You can check it or uncheck it at anytime and it takes effect immediately.

When I want to check files that I've burnt onto a CD, I just uncheck this setting and then check the files. Is this what you're looking for?

masken · Post by **masken** » Thu May 15, 2003 10:30 am

Yes I know.. but since I want to use the cache, and I also have hkSFV to auto-exit, it becomes quite a few mouse-clicks to get this fixed everytime. It would be much easier if this was an option in the explorer shell extension

Post by **Big-O Ryan** » Fri May 16, 2003 11:57 pm

OK, I understand.

I'm not sure that adding another shell extension command to the menu is the best way to solve this problem -- I'll try to think of something, though..

masken · Post by **masken** » Sun May 18, 2003 8:31 am

Ok, thanks

Well I still think it would be neat to have there, a "Re-evaluate checksums" option or something

Either that, or a cache-function that checks on which drives the checksums were made. If the drive where the *.sfv/*.md5 is executed from differs from the one stored in the cache-db, there could be a pop-up question saying something like

"There are cached results from this checksum file, but the last verification was done on another drive, do you want to re-check the files?"

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