Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Chris Davis
Might be a silly question but if you found a file which wasn't valid, what you going to do? Why wouldn't a file be valid? > On 17 Aug 2016, at 21:56, Kevin J Cully wrote: > > The thought was to keep an MD5 of each file (or similar), and if that changes > then trigger the actual validation.

Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > Regarding FileSystemWatcher in .Net, I don't know how good an idea it is > to monitor a whole drive like that. > Agree. Just a f'rinstance. If this is a fairly secure / stable environment, you could likely do a fast scan just checking directo

Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Stephen Russell
I would just do a foreach loop, from hell that is, writing the data to a set of tables. On second pass you update if necessary because date has changed. Doing MD5 compares just seems harder on BIG FILES to me. On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > Regarding FileSystemWatcher

Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Kevin J Cully wrote: > > It's funny you mention LibreOffice,... There are no coincidences ;) > In regards to images, the ImageMagick tool of "identify" would produce the > meta data from image files. Also in the > running to enter the test phase of this project.

Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Alan Bourke
Regarding FileSystemWatcher in .Net, I don't know how good an idea it is to monitor a whole drive like that. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, at 07:28 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > That's a great question! > > Obviously, since the post's subject didn't include

RE: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Kevin J Cully
The thought was to keep an MD5 of each file (or similar), and if that changes then trigger the actual validation. First run would be intense, but most files don't change much. Perhaps ever. It's funny you mention LibreOffice, because a suggestion I received was to use the command line tool 's

RE: Better way of determining resulting Excel column from integer?

2016-08-17 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2016-08-16 17:25, Darren wrote: This is what I use. It can be refined for sure but it does work. PROCEDURE spnCol2cCol LPARAMETERS vnCol LOCAL lnInt1, lnInt2, lnInt3, lcColumn STORE "" TO lcColumn lcColumn = "" DO CASE CASE m.vnCol > 1378 STORE m.vnCol - 703

Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Ted Roche
That's a great question! Obviously, since the post's subject didn't include "[NF]" you've already found your solution -- FoxPro! *wink* I've done some document management systems in VFP, and the recursion, cataloging and checksums is easy, relatively-speaking. But the validation is an interesting

Re: iCloud

2016-08-17 Thread Paul Hill
On 17 Aug 2016 12:11, "Man-wai Chang" wrote: > > ...unless you know how to: > > 1. encrypt/decrypt the data > 2. guarantee the connection is reliable > 3. deal with sudden network partitioning > > Personally, I don't trust these off-site data servers. I prefer > keeping my stuffs in my home. :) I

Re: Scrambled environment?

2016-08-17 Thread Stephen Russell
I have used Agent Ransack to find those files that are miss dropped, even on my machine. :) On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > Joe Yoder wrote on 2016-08-17: > > Dragging it off was the solution. What I can't figure out is how it > ended > > up on the toolbar but I'm b

Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Stephen Russell
For file validity how about scanning files with your AV? That should identify fake .pdf files as well as .docx Now a file inventory for file servers is a lot more to deal with. http://www.lansweeper.com/ On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Kevin J Cully wrote: > I work in a Windows Network envi

Re: Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Alan Bourke
> We want to make sure that the file is a valid format of the file that it says > that > it is. Examples: Is the file MyFile.PDF a valid PDF file? Is the file > MyFile.xlsx a valid Excel file? I don't think such a global tool or methodology exists, probably for a good reason. Taking even PDF or

Common File Document Validation

2016-08-17 Thread Kevin J Cully
I work in a Windows Network environment. We're interested in purchasing or building a system that does document validation on our documents across our servers. We're needing a system that goes through our servers and file systems, logging directories of documents, performing a hash on the file a

RE: Scrambled environment?

2016-08-17 Thread Tracy Pearson
Joe Yoder wrote on 2016-08-17: > Dragging it off was the solution. What I can't figure out is how it ended > up on the toolbar but I'm back in business. > > Thanks everyone - Joe > Joe, I usually blame it on a random mouse click. A user grabs the mouse, pressing the button, and moving th

Re: Scrambled environment?

2016-08-17 Thread Joe Yoder
Dragging it off was the solution. What I can't figure out is how it ended up on the toolbar but I'm back in business. Thanks everyone - Joe On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > Joe Yoder wrote on 2016-08-16: > > Thanks Richard, > > > > First off - I think you must be on t

RE: [NF] windows server 2007

2016-08-17 Thread Allen Pollard
Yes I was misinformed Al -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Man-wai Chang Sent: 17 August 2016 13:12 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] windows server 2007 I was about to comment on that :) On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:28 PM, A

Re: iCloud

2016-08-17 Thread Stephen Russell
I would be more worried about giving personal data to search engines. On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote: > ...unless you know how to: > > 1. encrypt/decrypt the data > 2. guarantee the connection is reliable > 3. deal with sudden network partitioning > > Personally, I don't tr

Re: [NF] windows server 2007

2016-08-17 Thread Man-wai Chang
I was about to comment on that :) On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > There's no such thing as Windows Serevr 2007. > > If they mean Windows Server 2008 or 2008R2 then there is -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 (Linux kernel 2.6.39.3)

Re: iCloud

2016-08-17 Thread Man-wai Chang
...unless you know how to: 1. encrypt/decrypt the data 2. guarantee the connection is reliable 3. deal with sudden network partitioning Personally, I don't trust these off-site data servers. I prefer keeping my stuffs in my home. :) On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > Online b

RE: Better way of determining resulting Excel column from integer?

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Crozier
Look at the Excel Address() Function Dave -Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 16 August 2016 21:27 To: profox@leafe.com; profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Better way of determining resulting Excel co