Soldato
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Yesterday I had a video on the NAS that I could not play the last five minutes of, VLC etc would hang and crash once they got to it. I found the original file on a local HDD and it would play fine. The file size of the original and copy on the NAS were the same, but doing a HashCalc showed that there was a difference (the file on the NAS must have got corrupted).
Thinking back I had something similar happen a while ago when copying a video off of a USB memory stick to a local HDD exactly the same happened - after a certain point in the copied video it would stop playing and whilst the file size was the same as the original a HashCalc showed there was a difference.
When copying a file I can obviously manually check the hashes of the new and original files, but this is a bit tedious and no doubt I'll forget to do it sometimes.
What I'd therefore like to do is either have a hash column in Windows Explorer (like size, date, etc.) or have a dedicated copying program that does the copy operation and then checks the hash.
Any recommendations?
Cheers and Happy New Year!
Thinking back I had something similar happen a while ago when copying a video off of a USB memory stick to a local HDD exactly the same happened - after a certain point in the copied video it would stop playing and whilst the file size was the same as the original a HashCalc showed there was a difference.
When copying a file I can obviously manually check the hashes of the new and original files, but this is a bit tedious and no doubt I'll forget to do it sometimes.
What I'd therefore like to do is either have a hash column in Windows Explorer (like size, date, etc.) or have a dedicated copying program that does the copy operation and then checks the hash.
Any recommendations?
Cheers and Happy New Year!
