How-To Videos for diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 📹

How to update and verify files — drag and drop

The process shown here applies to all IntegrityChecker operations, not just update and verify.

icj update finds all new and changed files that need hashing and updates the hashes for all.

icj verify reports new files, deleted files, changed files, corrupted files (if any).

Shortcut aliases

Why type it out fully when you can type something much shorter.

The icj installer sets up the following shortcuts for both the bash and zsh 'shells' used in Terminal. In other words, you can type "up" instead of "icj update".

up     = icj update
ver    = icj verify
st     = icj status
sn     = icj sync
dupes  = icj dupes
mat    = icj matches
inf    = icj info
cl     = icj clean

Getting help

Built-in help is available. Detailed help pages can be found in the diglloydTools online manual.

To see built-in help, type "icj" followed by the <RETURN> key.

Running multiple simultaneous jobs

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How moved and missing and changed files are reported

IntegrityChecker is super smart about finding files and folders that have been moved, making use of extended file attributes. But sometimes, files and folders really are missing, and this might be critical to know.

Changed files can be super important to know about—consider user errors, software bugs, and malware. IntegrityChecker flags all changes, alerting you to potential issues.

How icj reports corrupted files

File corruption means that files are changed somehow, not the original. This can cause small issues or render the file completely useless.

Corrupted files due to “bit rot” is rare on modern SSDs and hard drives, but on lower-quality storage devices it can happen a lot more often (eg SDXC camera cards). And over longer periods of time, bits do flip.

Corruption during file transfers eg backups is of greatest concern because a backup must be bit-for-bit identical. Just as critical is ensuring that you are not backing-up already-corrupted files, thus wiping out all good copies.

Finding duplicate files

Finding duplicates has saved me several hundred gigabytes just this year alone eg when I inadvertantly download the same stuff more than once.

Reconciling duplicates can take some effort, but icj emits output that when run in Terminal can remove or clone the files.

Finding empty files and getting info

You might wish to eliminate useless empty files or similar.

Changing preferences

Various icj preferences can be changed by editing the preference file.