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Hi folks, I do a lot of downloading of old TV shows from various torrent sites. My PC running Sonarr renames the files according to my preferred naming scheme and sets them up ready for viewing in Kodi. So far, so good. However sometimes the torrent sites request that I help to seed a show that has no seeders, so I have to manually rename the files to match the original filenames in the torrent, which can be cumbersome if it's a whole series with lots of episodes.

So what I have envisioned is a tool that, when a new show has just been downloaded, can be run to make a CRC-based snapshot of the files and folders in the torrent, which can be saved to file. Then, if I need to seed that show back, I can run the tool again, load up the file, point it at the folder where my renamed episodes are, and it'll create a copy of the folder with the original filenames and any subfolders if there were any present.

If such a tool exists already, I'd love to hear about it. Otherwise, if someone would possibly like to work on building such a tool, I'll help as much as I can.

EDIT: MultiPAR can do this!

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Hey, it's been a loooooong time since I was on here, I'm really glad to see DonationCoder is still around!

I often have clients who change their hosting services for web or email, and a lot hinges around knowing when their domain has propagated over to the new IP address. I envision a utility that I can put one or more hostnames in, and flag their resolved IPs as the "old" hosting server, and set an email address to notify when the IP changes (ie. the domain is now pointing to the new host). You could set an interval on which to perform the domain check, eg. every 1, 5, 10, 60 minutes, 6 hours, daily or however would work best.

If such a tool already exists, I've never encountered it before.

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This would be a very handy utility for sharing full info on collections of files between friends. I could create a ZIP or RAR file which would be a browseable copy of the folder tree, except each of the filenames stored in it would be zero bytes in size, so my friends could immediately see all the files I have and plan what to copy from me the next time come over for a visit.

Anyone keen to help out on this one?

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I'd love to have an app that allows you to auto-mount an .ISO file on doubleclick, copy its contents to a folder, unmount the .ISO and automatically delete it.

Does anyone else think this type of utility might come in handy?

Thanks in advance guys :)

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There are lots of desktop wallpaper managers out there, but not one has what I would've considered the most intuitive way of changing wallpaper, which is to drag and drop a picture from a folder or one's browser onto a app, and that picture immediately being assigned to the desktop as wallpaper.

Having recently joined the multiple monitor fraternity, I got to thinking that it would be extremely handy to have a little app that can either dock to the side of the screen or maybe come up with a hotkey, that has a little screen per monitor where I can drop a picture and have that picture assigned to the monitor that little screen represents.

The reason I'd class this as a coding snack rather than something more complex is that the app wouldn't have to maintain a list of desktop picture folders, be able to change wallpapers randomly or anything like that - just the ability to assign a dropped picture to the relevant monitor.

Hope that makes sense!  ;D

A nice-to-have would be to be able to set up whether to tile, stretch to fill or stretch proportionally the picture per monitor.

Thanks, and I want to add I think you guys are awesome!  :Thmbsup:

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I have several fixed hard drives in my PC as well as several external USB drives. Sometimes I want to take one of the externals to a friend's place, but the data I want to take along is on one of the fixed drives. I'd like a utility that will allow me to select one or more folders' worth of data on the external, then select a similar volume of data on the fixed HD, and will then basically cycle each of the selections to the opposite drive. The end result would be that the data I want to take along (TV show episodes, for example) is now on the external and ready to disconnect and take with me.

The stricture that makes this type of utility very necessary for me is that I often have very little free space on my drives, so doing the copying manually can be quite complicated and time-consuming. It might be plausible to create a RAM-cache for the copy so that minimal drive space doesn't prevent the copying from working...

I hope I'm being clear as to what I'm looking for. Of course, if such a utility exists already I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks, as always, in advance!  :D

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