Request for creation or checking of multiple hash checksum files to be queued so only one at a time is executed

[ZPNRG]

Hi.

I made a comment in the thread for Issue #13 (Queue multiple file check/creation enhancement), but the bulk of the issue there seemed to surround having individual hash checksum files created for each file instead of queue-ing in the sense I am thinking about.

I would like to have just the simple queue-ing aspect. Many times, I want to check a number of hash checksum files (.sha1 or .sha256) that are large or are for large files, like Windows ISOs. If I just double-click them one after another and run them to have HashCheck check the hash checksum files, then the HD (spinning disks) is thrashed. So, I have to run them manually 1 by 1 after each finishes. It would be nice if HashCheck would queue the operations so that after a currently running hash task finishes (creating a hash checksum file or checking a hash checksum file), then it will process the next one that I had started, and keep creating or checking one by one until all of the operations I had started have completed.

To be clear, this would ideally work for creating multiple hash checksum files one after another or double-clicking on existing hash checksum files one after another to be checked. Either way, I would like to start the process for all of the hash checksum files I want created or checked, but then just have HashCheck process them serially 1 by 1 and not have them all going (or trying to work) in parallel (at the same time). Like I said, even fast spinning drives are hammered if the the hash checksums being created or checked are for large files or there are lots of decent sized files and two or more of these hash checksum files being created or checked are processing at the same time. Therefore, being able to start the processes (creating or checking) and have HashCheck queue them and only do one at a time would be nice.

Let me know if there are any questions.

Thank you for the work on HashCheck.

-ZPNRG