Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program?

..@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Hoover Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 9:12 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program? Thankyou Mark, this is exactly what I was looking for. _Joe On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Mark A. Matienzo <mark.matie

Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program?

Thankyou Mark, this is exactly what I was looking for. _Joe On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: > Joe, > > If you're looking for an open source tool that will work on both Mac OS and > Windows, I recommend Fixity, developed by AVPreserve < >

Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program?

Joe, If you're looking for an open source tool that will work on both Mac OS and Windows, I recommend Fixity, developed by AVPreserve < https://www.avpreserve.com/tools/fixity/>. There's also both a user guide and tutorial video for it. Fixity is particularly well suited for this is that it can

Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program?

Sure, understood. You can write scripts with simple guis, e.g. that's easy to do in Python in most OSes. Or you can put a web front-end on it. Or if you have a macro function in whatever system you use for storing your digital assets, that may work. I bet if you find a local dev and say "make

Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program?

That is why I emphasized "user-friendliness” unfortunately once you get into doing scripting, no matter how simple, people have no interest. I typically use scripting as well for running checksums but this isn’t an option for others. I know there are several checksum/hashsum apps out there

Re: [MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program?

This question gave me deja vu! Here's what I said 11 years ago in reply to a related question: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/msg08999.html I don't know if perl would be the right language, or is mdb is the right way to keep the results, but this job is so easy to do with simple

[MCN-L] Recommendations for a Checksum Program?

I am looking for recommendations for a user-friendly, affordable Checksum utility that is free-to-low-cost for small archives and history organizations. Ideally, the utility would be able to batch process digital assets. Recommendations for checksum applications for both Mac and Windows would be