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**jamiemac2005** · 06-18-2009, 04:53 PM

Okay, different approaches are the way to go then:
- If it was split then it would have (probably) modified the file's headers, and depending on what joining function/software you're using it could change it in different ways.
- What file systems are the OSes using(FAT/NTFS) that could also modify the header(modding the file)... Best thing to try to start with is check the times and dates/other info in the "properties" of the files(right click->props, or similar)... If they differ then that could be the problem. But it shouldn't be the OSes themselves (64/32bit) that change the md5... unless that's correspondand with the ones that were different....(actually that's something to check, if the 64 bit vs 32 bit are different but both the same then that's probably it, but i don't [as of yet] know the technical reason for this).

Cheers,
Jamey

06-18-2009, 04:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
jamiemac2005 Design Team Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Coventry, UK Posts: 1,887 OS: Vista, various linux distros	Re: MD5 of a file is different on different computers? Okay, different approaches are the way to go then: - If it was split then it would have (probably) modified the file's headers, and depending on what joining function/software you're using it could change it in different ways. - What file systems are the OSes using(FAT/NTFS) that could also modify the header(modding the file)... Best thing to try to start with is check the times and dates/other info in the "properties" of the files(right click->props, or similar)... If they differ then that could be the problem. But it shouldn't be the OSes themselves (64/32bit) that change the md5... unless that's correspondand with the ones that were different....(actually that's something to check, if the 64 bit vs 32 bit are different but both the same then that's probably it, but i don't [as of yet] know the technical reason for this). Cheers, Jamey __________________ Myspace Last edited by jamiemac2005; 06-18-2009 at 04:54 PM.