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Re: [ARSCLIST] Checksums
At 09:01 AM 4/27/2006, Miriam Meislik wrote:
Good morning,
We use Toast442.org's MD5, http://www.toast442.org/, to run our 
checksums.  It is free Windows software and works rather well from 
our perspective. We have used it for about 3 years.   All checksums 
generated are kept in the folder containing the digital files and is 
named so that we know exactly what it is for.  In our case, we give 
everything a batch number, so the checksum is saved using that 
particular batch code.  Should the data in folder change, a very 
rare occurrence, the checksum would be run again.
In the three years that you (or anyone else) have been using this, 
has it ever reported an error that was not reported by the operating system?
If you have had an error reported by either the checksum software or 
the operating system, was it repairable in any way or did you go to 
another copy?
Cheers,
Richard
Tape Restoration Seminar:    MAY 9-12, 2006; details at Web site.
Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada       (905) 713 6733     1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm