Topic: MD5summer problem

[blu666z]

Got an issue with MD5summer and want to see if it's happening to everybody else.

When I archive a show I end up with two folders. ie...

whoever2006-03-31(masters)
whoever2006-03-31.flac16

Use MD5summer to create an md5 for each folder seperately.  When it saves the md5 file was the .flac16 folder, it doesn't seem to tack the .md5 extenstion onto the file.  So I end up with a filename whoever2006-03-31.flac16 that I have to rename to whoever2006-03-31.md5.  The file is correctly created as whoever2006-03-31(masters).md5 for the other folder.  It's nothing more than a simple hassle to rename it, just curious if I'm doing something wrong.

-Kevin

[rodeen]

I don't have an answer but I'm guessing it's not you.  I think just about everything with MD5summer's interface to be counter-intuitive.
Sorry about the lack of help.   

[bhtoque]

That is the way it works. If you named your tracks banddate.flac then the md5 would be banddate.md5

MD5Summer doesn't care what kind of files it is creating checksums for. You could md5 a folder full of .txt and .jpg files if you wanted to.

What I usually do is name the .wav fileset md5 file with banddate.wav.md5, but either way, you have to change the name.

JAson

[nardo]

I'm not sure if the problem got fixed but until about a year ago I had major issues with md5summer. Whenever I wanted to create checksums for larger files (something llike 300+ MB, such as untracked shows, etc.), it would seem to create them fine, but they would never verifiy. Quite annoying, since I usually don't check my own md5s right after creating them. I never had that problem with mkwact's md5 checksums, so just something to consider (unless this has been fixed, then just ignore my post).

Forgot to say, this was of course reproducable and I wouldn't have noticed if a fellow trader hadn't pointed out to me that one of these files just wouldn't verifiy for him. I then used md5summer again to create a checksum, got the exact same result; with mkw I got a different checksum (one that md5summer also would verify).