Topic: MD5 file on 722 with MD5summer

[Zee]

I connect my 722 via firewire and fire up MD5summer. I point it to the 722 and make md5s while the files are still on the 722s hard drive. Now my question does MD5Summer copy the files over to a temp folder and then load in memory to create the MD5?

[MattD]

No ... it just reads the files off the 722, treating it as a hard drive. It loads into memory directly from the 722's drive.

[JasonR]

You can also take md5 sums from the command line (Terminal).  I usually transfer everything from a directory like this...

mkdir ~/722     (create a directory '722' in my homedir to hold all my transferred files - just do this once)
mkdir ~/722/Y05M06D16    (create a 'date' directory in the '722' folder for this day's stuff)
cd /Volumes/"722 HDD"/SOUNDDEV/Y05M06D16     (go to the Sound Devices directory that I want to transfer)
md5 *.WAV >> ~/722/Y05M06D16/checksums-722.md5; cp -p *.WAV ~/722/Y05M06D16/; md5 ~/722/Y05M06D16/*.WAV >> ~/722/Y05M06D16/checksums-mac.md5     (take checksums of the original files and put that in checksums-722.md5 file.  then copy the files, and checksum those into another file.)

Then just glance at the two md5 files to see if the transfer worked properly.  So far I haven't had a bad transfer this way, but that was not the case when transferreing via the GUI.

- Jason

[Zee]

Cool!!! I just started thinking about the work flow and wanted to make sure.. When I start thinking thats when I do the most damage ;-)