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English (Global) => General Discussion => Topic started by: fyn on 06-11-2009, 16:22:48

Title: [OK] What is the Rapidshare MD5 checksum function used for?
Post by: fyn on 06-11-2009, 16:22:48

Z-o-o-m allows people to find out the MD5 of files from their RS links. What do people use this information for?

I assume you cannot change the MD5 of files which have already been uploaded to the rapidshare server, so what do people do with it.

Title: Re: What is the Rapidshare MD5 checksum function used for?
Post by: z_o_o_m on 06-11-2009, 16:49:58

I will add some function to find the MD5 in future, not now

Title: Re: What is the Rapidshare MD5 checksum function used for?
Post by: fyn on 06-11-2009, 16:55:52

Sorry, you misunderstand. z-o-o-m already can find the MD5 of a file from it's rapidshare link:-


(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1593/md5k.jpg)



I just do not understand why people would need to know what a files MD5 is. I posted hoping to learn more :)

Title: Re: What is the Rapidshare MD5 checksum function used for?
Post by: z_o_o_m on 06-11-2009, 23:08:59

I see :) I forgot this function xD
Someone needed this, so I added it :) To check, if the file is correctly uploaded ... dont know :)

Title: Re: [OK] What is the Rapidshare MD5 checksum function used for?
Post by: Lerner on 06-12-2009, 11:17:42

You need this so you can verify if the file on your disk is the same as the file on the server without having to download the whole thing. Which is exactly what I need to do now and how I found this thread.

My question is, how do you bring up that "RapidShare MD5" window?

Title: Re: [OK] What is the Rapidshare MD5 checksum function used for?
Post by: Lerner on 06-12-2009, 11:31:04

Never mind, that was easy. Just Tools->RapidShare MD5.

That is VERY useful by the way, as I don't think you can even get an exact file size for RapidShare files to compare an existing file against. MD5 is much more reliable then doing that anyway.

Please maintain this feature in future versions.