@Dezoaan Thanks, I got the sfv working now.

This might be a bit confusing but where you save the SFV file is important in relation to which files are in the list:

• Files that are on the same drive as the saved SFV file path are saved with paths relative to the save folder.
• Files that are on a different drive than the saved SFV file path are saved with full paths.

-skwire (March 17, 2017, 11:02 AM)

Thank you for the reply, but as an average user, it IS rather confusing for me why the location where the sfv file is saved should matter. It's especially hard to understand just from reading the two sentences.  :huh: BtW, by "same drive" do you mean an entire physical hard drive itself or just a logical partition?

I've managed to accomplish the initial goal of comparing those two folders by saving the sfv file first inside the first folder. After some more time testing and using SFV Ninja, I do have some additional questions:
There are some cases where it's not possible to save the sfv file in the exact same location as the files/folders the checksums were being generated for. For example, when reading the contents of a networked drive or an optical disk/image. The original path might be read-only. Is it absolutely necessary to save the checksum in the exact same path? Is there another way?

Also, it would be helpful to be able to export the results of the checksum comparison report as a txt or html formatted file. I've tried to directly use Ctrl + C to copy the results and paste it into notepad, but it appears the contents are not possible to copy into clipboard.

Is it possible to add support for the file formats BPG and WebP? They've both been out for a good while now (though still not that popularized due to lack of software support), and the image comparison tool here shows a far superior image quality as well as file size ratio.

-Cocoa (March 16, 2017, 04:20 AM)

this off-topic, just to say that the difference there between BPG and JPG is very impressive

-tomos (March 16, 2017, 05:24 AM)

Yep. Too bad I still can't find a single image viewing/management software that supports BPG. Or at least one that is of decent functionality anyway. IrfanView has at least added support for WebP through a plugin, so I thought if I can't get BPG, at least WebP would be better than nothing. Both are better than JPG in many ways (WebP also supports lossless), though in terms of lossy, BPG is better than both by bounds and leaps.

Hello!

I've very glad I spotted your software fairly quick after coming to the forums. I spent the entire evening testing out around 7 or 8 different checksum generating or verifying software after trawling the internet, and in the end I had to come back to Donationcoder to find something even close to approaching what I need. I just wish I had thought of coming here sooner, but the forum is still a bit difficult to sift through to find a particular software for a particular need.

Your SFV Ninja's ability to generate checksum files with relative paths is a big bonus for me to decide to try it out--all the other tools glaring oversight to only be able to generate and verify checksums with static paths frustrated me to no end... (You'd think this was one of the most basic things that's needed for verifying checksum files )

Unforunately I still can't seem to figure out how to have SFV Ninja do all that I need, which is really quite simple:
I have two folders, say named Folder A and Folder B.
They're stored under different paths and have different names. Inside are other nested folders and files, which have the same general directory structure, but may or may not all match. What I'm trying to find out is exactly what's there and what's not, and for the ones that have same filename and path, whether they're indeed the exact same files.

So I need a file checksum tool that can do the following:

1. Scan and generate checksum files such as SFV or other formats for a folder, e.g. Folder A, with all subfolders and files inside.
2. Use the generated checksum file to compare against another folder, with different path and top level folder name, e.g. Folder B for the contents INSIDE.
3. Generate a report that tells me what matches and what's missing/changed. This doesn't have to be very comprehensive, but should be easy to read.

In the short amount of time I had left for the evening, I couldn't test SFV Ninja very thoroughly, but it seems it already got two out of the three down pretty well. Tihe only issue I have left is how can I accomplish the missing one (#2 in the steps)?