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Automated Scanning for Corrupted Archive Files
I have all kinds of files that I have downloaded from everywhere over the years scattered around my hard drives. I’m in the process of trying to organize them all and have run into a problem. Sometimes a file was not downloaded correctly (this was a big issue when Chromium first came out) and is thus corrupt. For media files, this is may be simple to determine (it requires actually opening and examining the file). For executables or other binaries, it is relatively difficult (executables may or may not crash, other binaries could be completely unknown). Archive files (eg ZIP, RAR, 7Z, EXE, ACE, etc.) however should be pretty simple, they have a built-in corruption detection facility.
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