A commandline program to generate xml reports about the validity of files. It scans directories and tests every file for errors. This is useful to find corrupt/broken files on the hdd.
- Install Python 3.7+
py -m pip install -r requirements.txtpy -m pip install -r plugins/requirements.txtpy validator.py --help
usage: validator.py [-h] [-d REPORTDIR] [-x XSLFILE] [-r] [-v] [-i EXT [EXT ...]] [--relative] [--resume RESUME] DIRECTORY [DIRECTORY ...]
FileValidator
positional arguments:
DIRECTORY directories to create report for
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d REPORTDIR, --reportdir REPORTDIR
set output directory for reports (default: reports)
-x XSLFILE, --xsl XSLFILE
set XSL style sheet file (default: report.xsl)
-r, --recursive scan directories recursively (default: False)
-v, --verbose output debug info (default: False)
-i EXT [EXT ...], --ignore EXT [EXT ...]
extensions to ignore (default: [])
--relative Output relative paths (default: False)
--resume RESUME Resume validation using a previous XML report (default: None)
py validator.py -r "C:\PUBLIC"
- Plugins:
- Archives: unrar and 7z executable, set path in plugin
- Videos: ffmpeg executable, set path in plugin
- FLAC: flac executable, set path in plugin
It loads plugins which handle one or more file extensions. Then for every file the right plugin is used to validate it and output the results to a xml file.
Plugins can be written by everybody. For an example of a trivial plugin see plugins/txt.py.