Md5Checker 3.2.2 is released
November 19, 2007 9:55 pm | Release
Added Compare MD5 dialog - Can compare one file’s MD5 checksum with another automatically:
Compare MD5 with inputed/pasted one:
- Select one md5 item with calculated MD5 checksum
- Press F2, use the Edit | Compare MD5 menu item, or use the Compare MD5 right-click context menu item to bring up the Compare MD5 dialog
- Or you just double click the md5 item
- Input/paste MD5 in the lower edit control and watch the result in the top-right edit control
Compare two files’ MD5 checksums:
- Select two md5 items with calculated MD5 checksums
- Press F2, use the Edit | Compare MD5 menu item, or use the Compare MD5 right-click context menu item to bring up the Compare MD5 dialog
- Watch the result in the top-right edit control
Other tip:
You can select other md5 items without closing the Compare MD5 dialog.
Tip to compare MD5 checksums manually:
The MD5 algorithm determines that the MD5 checksum will become totally different even if the file has been changed a bit. For instance, it may change from C3FCD3D76192E4007DFB496CCA67E13B to 56785C60518BBA6B4F895CB73628C491, but to D3FCD3D76192E4007DFB496CCA67E13B? Scarcely possible. Therefore, when you compare MD5s manually, comparing the first/last a few characters is fine. If you are still not so sure, use the Compare MD5 dialog.
6 Responses to “Md5Checker 3.2.2 is released”
Comparison of MD5 checksums SHOULD NOT be case sensitive.
By HS on Nov 26, 2007
Oh~, a real stupid mistake. I will fix it next version.
Thank you HS, thanks very much!
By admin on Nov 26, 2007
Hi HS,
Regarding to the Check for update feature, I don’t want to increase the file size a lot, so is it reasonable only add a menu item under the Help that will take you to the download page?
By admin on Nov 26, 2007
I don’t think it would take more that few lines of code to check updates. Just make a page with release version and check it for current version from program update menu.
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/updatecheck.asp
By HS on Nov 26, 2007
Forget to post a suggestion
The combobox Autoscroll property should be enabled to allow user add enough extensions. Currently it’s width is fixed. And remove the .md5 from the initial list. There is no need to generate checksum for a checksum file :D. Zip and rar should be more appropriate instead of it.
By HS on Nov 26, 2007
Wow~ HS, I really appreciate your suggestions! I think all of them will be applied to the next version
Regarding to the .md5, just clarify, Md5Checker will never ADD .md5 files. Including .md5 in that list just tells Md5Checker when it adds folders it should look for MD5 files, OPEN them and LOAD MD5 checksums from them. Otherwise no MD5 checksum will be loaded while adding folders.
Why didn’t I let Md5Checker load all MD5 files by default but use an option? Just in case somebody want to check a subset of files in a folder (using a filter) but there is an MD5 file contains more files than that. he/she maybe don’t want to load that MD5 file since all loaded md5 items will be checked.
By admin on Nov 27, 2007