Image-ExifTool - Add md5-sum to .xmp-file?

Posted on Fri Sep 5 17:15:42 2008 by hipshot
Add md5-sum to .xmp-file?
Hi!

I wonder if it possible/feasable to add a "personal" tag to the .xmp-file that ExifTool can generate?

I looked at the exiftool homepage, and in this forum, but didn't really find an answer.

My thinking is that I would generate a md5-hash sum for each .cr2-file directly upon downloading from the camera, and then generate an xmp-file with Exiftool which would include the hash.

This md5 sum would then accompany the raw-file so I at a later stage could verify that the file hasn't been corrupted.

Today I use md5summer and Fastsum to generate hash sums stored in separate files, but it seemed like a nice idea to have the md5 sum in the .xmp-file that is supposed to be together with the raw file at all times.

Best regards,

/Par
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