Darren New wrote:
> If you use the original MD5 as the file name, then add the attributes to 
> it, you don't even have to look at the metadata to tell if you already 
> have the file. You don't have to hash it, or store the hash anywhere else.

Ehhh, well, the software I use generates and can perform operations on a 
file's md5, but not (that I know how to do, at any rate) search for 
similar images by comparing the filename to the md5.  Also, when 
casually browsing the drive from explorer, md5-as-filename isn't the 
most user-friendly option.  My original problem was whether or not to 
include redundant data in a filename and its path...which I already do 
for manga, so that question is more or less answered for the sake of 
uniformity, as well as the fact that if I post a single image to a 
bulletin board, it only refers to the filename, not its path.

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Tim Cook
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