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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Checksum for original files came out unreadable (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does that mean there was bitrot ready in the original file? Something else? How is the checksum even generated successfully if it's corrupted or undreadable in the first place.

Any way to fix?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I am on using hashcheck lol. It works. But when checking, it comes out as unreadable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What does that mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I can create the .md5 file but upon opening it to test, it comes up as "unreadable" status.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Why are you using third party tools for this?

An "unreadable" result sounds like a failure from HashCheck - What does your OS Native tools give you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What? The hash is just a number in a text file. Open the md5 with notepad?

You aren't very clear... Are you saying it creates the hash, but then verifying fails? I don't know what you mean by unreadable