SHA512 question

[iammike]

Hi,

need your help

I have the following dir structure

- ArtistA
-Album1
- Song name1
- Album 2
- Song name2
- ArtistB
- Album1
- Song name 1

etc etc


Now I want to create a SHA512 Checksum of all files in the Directory but I would like the checksum file to have it the name <Artist Name>.sha512

Now the behavior is that if you select both <Album1> and < Album2> the Sha512 Checksum file will be called <Album1>.sha512

Is there any trick that would do that?

Also if I could create that Checksum for all (3xxx) Artist in 1 go (with a separate checksum file for each artist directory) would be bonus!

Thanks for any input/suggestions. Really appreciated.

[nsp]

Standard checksum file is placed at same level at checked files (in your case Album) !
You can build your own using a script but the standard check tool will not work either !

[Dalai]

This is (currently) not possible with TC's checksum function, as nsp pointed out. Although it doesn't support SHA-512*, I recommend to use HashDeep in conjunction with the MakeBat plugin (direct link). Then you can create a script that does all the work. In TC only the "Artist Name" directories are selected, and then "packed" to call makebat plugin.

*) It does support SHA-256 which should be more than enough in your case.

If you don't know how to write such script, I'm sure the forum will help you.

Regards
Dalai

[iammike]

Thx Guys for the helpful replies.

Will try and do it myself with HashDeep and MakeBat and will report back