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?

  • slaiyfer@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

    • plunki@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year 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

      • slaiyfer@alien.topOPBEnglish
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        1 year ago

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

    • Ubermidget2@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year 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?