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For a shooter or small crew on a Windows laptop who copies a camera card to two drives and wants proof that every file matches before the card is formatted. You get one PowerShell script that fingerprints the card with SHA-256 before copying, copies with robocopy and refuses to replace files already in a destination, reads every copy back against the saved manifest, reads the card again, and writes a CSV report with PASS, CHECK or FAIL. It ran only on 9 generated files of up to 3 MB on one disk, not on a real card, so speed and card file systems are untested.
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Offload a camera card to two folders with robocopy on Windows and prove every copy matches with SHA-256 before you format the card
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For a shooter or small crew on a Windows laptop who copies a camera card to two drives and wants proof that every file matches before the card is formatted. You get one PowerShell script that fingerprints the card with SHA-256 before copying, copies with robocopy and refuses to replace files already in a destination, reads every copy back against the saved manifest, reads the card again, and writes a CSV report with PASS, CHECK or FAIL. It ran only on 9 generated files of up to 3 MB on one disk, not on a real card, so speed and card file systems are untested.
Example
On a generated card the script copied to two folders and passed. After I changed one bit in one copy, robocopy alone reported nothing wrong and skipped all 9 files, while the script flagged the one file with a different SHA-256 and said not to format the card.
Useful starting points
- Robocopy skips a file whose size and time match, so it will not notice a changed byte; a separate hash check is needed.
- Keep the manifest: a later -VerifyOnly run can check the drives again after a restart without the card.
- Do not format the card until the report says PASS and the file count matches what the camera recorded.
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