[Box Backup] chris-merge - 2GB+ - Get OK - Compare fails?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Tobias,

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the term top-posting, so I might unintentially be doing i again now. Sorry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting

> The problem with the compare seems to be a with the MS Office files 
> themselves (I only get errors on MS-files).
>
> I can restore the files from backup, and they have the same content as 
> the original files. Despite this, the restored and original file have 
> different MD5 sigs. I have found by testing, that the MD5 sig of office 
> files change everytime they are opened even though they have not been 
> changed by the user and saved back.

OK, that's been seen by other users too. See:

http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac/wiki/FAQ#what-does-the-has-different-contents-to-store-file-log-message-mean

> So... No problem it seems.

OK, that's great, thanks for letting me know :-)

Cheers, Chris.
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