Ann: New Mac P2 offload software. Beta testers needed....

Hi Anders, are you still giving out beta versions of P2 Genie. Or have you finished a final version. Eather way, i would love to use it. Im in desperate need of a better workflow of copying files off the P2 Store. I messaged you a few time a while back about it, but you were probably too busy to respond at the time. If you could let me know or message me a link to where i could get a copy that would be great.

thanks,
Ben
 
Well I finally got my HVX, P2 Store and P2 Genie... Great work Anders. Brilliantly useful app. I've already copied 120GB of data using P2 Genie. I love the single folder option!
 
Anders
there was a great question posted on a different threa wondering if the p2 genie has this feature:

I'm using the FS-100 [and eventually the cineporter] which splits clips every 2GBs or so will the P2Genie recognizes this and will let me choose which clips should be imported as 1 long file.
 
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hey Anders -

what about creating checksummed DMGs from the P2s? there's another thread on this. I had considered writing my own stuff to checksum basic file copies (well, rsyncs) but the dmg idea might be great because it means an entire card would retain its checksum information.

would be pretty easy on the command line to do this, and I imagine many of the UI switches would be the same -...

;)
 
Can you enlighten me a bit about how this workflow would work?
And if you have the Terminal commands for doing it, I'd might implement it....
 
Everything the same, just instead of copying to a folder, you create a disk image from the mounted P2 card, checksum it and store it in the target folder.

_a
 
I guess turing is saying: does the p2 genie do a copy AND verify byte by byte so each copy is an exact duplicate to the byte using native FAT32, which is one of the advantages of creating a disc image, decreases file corruption by copying the contents in fat32 rather than when you copy straight to the mac harddrive whcih copies it using HFS+

so i would guess p2 Genie when copying to the hardrive uses HFS+, correct me if am wrong Anders.
 
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well, remember that verifying at copy time is quite different from creating a disk image which retains the checksum information after the copy - so it can be re-verified any time it is used or transferred to another system.
 
so you're saying to kep your p2 files as disc images so that when you do need them again you could create the file out of disc image which will reverify de novo
 
Just a breif note:

Im shooting on location this week.
So if you order thruh the PayPal store it might take 1-2 days before you get the registered copy. I will try my best to deliver within 24 hours.

Best Regards
Anders Holck
 
hi anders,

If the tool were to do checksumming and write a little CHECKSUMS.TXT file into copied folders which could be used to verify:

./relative/path/to/file (tab) checksum
./relative/path/to/file2 (tab) checksum

etc..

Then this tool would be worth every penny. As it is I can't quite justify it because I can do nearly everything you're doing very fast on the command line.

A crc32 or MD5 would be fine.

_a
 
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