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Use this md5sum recipe to confirm the that two directories are exactly the same.
If you are on Mac OS X though ensure you use brew to instal md5sum first.
Usage
Verify directory copy by md5 summing each file and then creating a single md5sum from the list.
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This below from cnet does not work. It returned the error "find: md5sum: No such file or directory" when I ran it against my Apple Photos directory. It looks like it should work. And the answer is md5 sum does not exist by default on Mac OS X.
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find -s "source directory" -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | md5sum > source.md5.txt
find -s "target directory" -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | md5sum > target.md5.txt
diff source.md5.txt target.md5.txt |
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