Posted by David Harper on 12/11/06 17:51

"Citizen Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:457d89a1.5867937@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:52:13 GMT, "David Harper"
> <dharper@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>QVerify from http://www.edinaz.com/ will compare binary files and entire
>>folders of files. It's free.
>
> QVerify puts out this message:
>
> 10:38:23 Verify started.
> The files have the same SIZE and MODIFIED TIMES!.
> 10:38:23 Verify completed!
>
> I assume that it actually does compare the contents of the two files
> even though the size and mod time are the same.
>
> IOW it is not solely relying on size and mod time to claim the two
> files are the same.
>
> The reason I ask is because QVerify is very fast and I expected it to
> take a bit longer to do the actual content verification. The file is
> an AVI that is 318,148 KB in size.

Bob, you need to check the "Check Data" box for it to verify and compare
contents.

- David Harper

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