Re^4: Uniquely identifying files on windows

[VSarkiss]

in reply to Re^3: Uniquely identifying files on windows
in thread Uniquely identifying files on windows

You misunderstand. If I do

copy foo.txt bar.txt

I will have two files that will produce the same checksum. Clearly they're not the same file (different name, different bits on disk, etc.) yet any test using a checksum will show no difference.

That's what I meant by testing contents rather than testing files.

[holli]

Oh, I got you. My point was that, because there no symbolic and rarely hard links under windows, the "unique identifier" of a file is the filename and path itself. But of course I expressed it poorly.