Looking for MD5/SFV creator with recursion and specific file creationoptions

[Ben]

Hi all,

Before burning any large collection of files to CD I create MD5
checksums for each file on the CD. I prefer to have a single text file
in each directory containing the MD5 sum of all of the files in that
directory only - it makes checking much quicker if I only want to copy a
small folder full of files off of a DVD and is more convenient than
having to go through selecting individual files to check against one
huge file storing the checksums for a whole DVD.

I have found plenty of SFV/MD5 creators that will recursively scan a
directory tree and create a checksum file, but they all seem to create a
single file in the root directory of the tree rather than individual
files for each directory. Can anyone point me at a decent SFV/MD5
creator which creates individual files for each directory without
manually creating them, preferably with shell integration for creation
and checking?

At the moment I am using hkSFV and very happy with it in all other
respects but it would be nice if I could find something with involving a
bit less clicking!

Cheers,

B

 

[Peter Seiler]

Ben - 12.01.2006 11:26 :

Hi all,

Before burning any large collection of files to CD I create MD5
checksums for each file on the CD. I prefer to have a single text file
in each directory containing the MD5 sum of all of the files in that
directory only

sorry for OT, but to do what you want is only one of all the great
features of "Total Commander" (payware).

 

[Ian Edmont]

Hi Ben,

I have been looking for something like this for a while now without
success however I did come across FastSum (http://www.fastsum.com/)
which is very fast but is not freeware.

Hopefully, someone will come up with a suggestion.

Ian Edmont.

 

[Ben]

I have been looking for something like this for a while now without
success however I did come across FastSum (http://www.fastsum.com/)
which is very fast but is not freeware.

Thanks for that... I have just discovered something I overlooked in one
of the apps I'd tested previously - cSFV actually will do exactly what
I/we want but only for SFV files.

http://cruzer.antispam.dk/csfv/index.php

It does seem a slower than hkSFV, but if it saves me time overall by not
going through a whole directory tree manually right clicking on all the
folders, it looks like I have a partial winner

Just right click on the root folder of your directory and choose "Create
SFV in Folder" and answer Yes to "Create SFV-Files for Sub-Folders as
well". An individual SFV file for all files in each folder - bingo!

I know that in theory an SFV checksum will be just as good as an MD5,
but I'm still open to suggestions if anyone has a tool that will do the
same for MD5, or has an opinion on any tool with fast(er?) SFV creation.

Ben

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:26:12 +0000, Ben wrote:

[Checksum program creating file for each folder]
Some days ago I came across SmartMD5 which might be the right program
for your needs. I only had a quick glance into it, though. The homepage
can be found here:

www.byza.it/main.php?pagemain=md5

On its first start the program shows an About screen. Later on this
screen doesn't pop up anymore.

HTH.
BeAr

 

[Ben]

Some days ago I came across SmartMD5 which might be the right program
for your needs.

Thanks for that! I now have a few leads to follow - sadly haven't found
anything with shell integration and MD5 creation yet, but if I only need
to locate the root folder instead of manually finding them all in
Windows Explorer, I guess it doesn't matter too much.

First impressions of SmartMD5 are that it is fairly slow compared to
other MD5 creation tools (seems about 1/2 to 2/3 the speed of hkSFV) but
again, if it saves me time overall by not having to go through every
directory, it's probably a net gain.

Cheers!

 

[SeaMaiden]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:26:12 +0000, Ben wrote:

[Checksum program creating file for each folder]
Some days ago I came across SmartMD5 which might be the right program
for your needs. I only had a quick glance into it, though. The homepage
can be found here:

www.byza.it/main.php?pagemain=md5

On its first start the program shows an About screen. Later on this
screen doesn't pop up anymore.

Will any of these do what you're looking for? Some are console tools that
must be run from the cmd prompt. Some are Windows tools.

sha160.exe
Free console tool from www.diamondcs.com

md5summer
http://www.md5summer.org/

Karen's Hasher
http://www.karenware.com

HJsplit (checksum verifier)
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/