Final Count: A Painless Last Minute Sanity Check for Your Backups
Every digital tech, photographer, and DIT knows the low key anxiety of wrapping a shoot. You have your master drive, and your backup drive(s) lined up. Before you unmount those disks and hand them off to a client or producer, you need absolute certainty that everything copied perfectly. You can not assume your sync software did it's job, you HAVE to know for sure. The standard, built-in way to verify this on macOS can be a little tedious. You select your folders on both drives, hit Command + I to pull up the Get Info windows, and wait. And wait. Finder is notoriously slow at calculating folder sizes on the fly because it tries to recursively index every deep, nested file in the background. Worse, it can occasionally miscalculate or stall out on massive volume transfers, leaving you staring at fluctuating byte counts while the crew is waiting to pack up. Even when it does load, you are left squinting at two separate windows, trying to manually e...
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