Feature wanted: auto update checksum file

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vnoder

Freefilesync is a very great file sync tool, I use it every day.
And I use checksum file created by md5 command to check file integrity.
when I use freefilesync sync some new file to cold storage disk,then I need to
use md5 command create checksum.
step1. use ffs sync changed file
step2. find updated file , and create checksum again to gen new checksum file.
It is two step, when file nums is very big, it is a huge workload.
Maybe, it is good idea to integrate a checksum create and update feature into freefilesync.
Auto update checksum file after ffs sync finished
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Plerry

You can have FFS run a command On Completion (see the Synchronization Settings, F8),
However, any such command will "hit" all files in scope, not just the ones just copied over or updated.

You could also have FFS invoke some self-created script-file via the FFS On Completion command line.
That script-file should then determine which file to determine the md5 checksum of, and consequently do so.