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Sig2Dat For Idiots
The In-Depth Guide to the Tool for Better Filesharing on FastTrack

Page 1 : What is Sig2Dat? - How does Sig2Dat work? -Why use Sig2Dat? Quick Start : Skip the in-depth stuff and get started.
Page 2 : Where to get Sig2Dat - How to install it- Requirements/Compatibility F.A.Q. : Frequently Asked Questions about Sig2Dat, Quicklinks, hashes.
Page 3 : How to use a Quick Link - How to spot a Quick Link
 Links : Useful sites for FastTrack filesharing
Page 4 : You're Here! :How to make a Quick Link - How to post a Quick Link in the FastTrack Central forum Opera : Tip for Opera-users about Sig2Dat

How to make a Quick Link
First of all, you can only make Quick Links for files you already have on your computer; Sig2Dat needs the complete file in order to make a Link.

1. Open Sig2Dat.


2. Press "Signature Calculation".



3. Now you can drag the files you want (you can do more than one at a time) from your Windows Explorer window to the "Calculate Signature" Window.

Or you can press "Select File(s) For Calculation", browse to the file you want, select it (or them; you can do more than one at a time), and press "Open"


4. Highlight the file by clicking on it, then pick an option for formatting: I usually go for the [URL]...[/URL] style hybrid


5. Press "Copy Selection to Clipboard".
6. Press Ctrl+V to paste into text file, forum posting window, e-mail etc. And you'll see the finished object, like this:

File: VirtualDub-1_4_10.zip
Length: 711077 Bytes, 694KB
UUHash: =6QbuEMkaIrmrm7UBmZT9SqEU6GQ=
How to post a Quick Link in the FastTrackMovies.com forum?

(most of this is same as above)

  1. Open Sig2Dat, and press "Signature Calculation".
  2. Select files by the Drag-and-Drop method or the "Select File(s)" method
  3. Highlight the file you want by clicking it with your mouse pointer.
    (to do more than one file at a time, press Ctrl while clicking the files you want.)
  4. In the Signature Calculation window, press "[URL]...[/URL] style" or the "hybrid" right next to it.
  5. Press 'Copy Selection to Clipboard'
  6. In the Forum posting window, press Ctrl + V to paste the resulting Link .
  7. Type in any other comments you want to make (quality, source, link to more info on the file etc.) and then press 'Add Post' (or 'Post Reply')
At the new FastTrackMovies.com forum and some others (e.g. vBulletin) , use " [URL=] [/URL] style " & "[URL=] [/URL] style Hybrid" options
At the old FastTrack Central and other forums run by ezBoard, you need to use "normal style" hash sig OR "QuickLink HTML style" or "Quick Link HTML style Hybrid".
Always use an up-to-date virus scanner on any downloaded files.
Credit for the info on this site goes to Indiana Jones, JohnDoe345 and all those who've contributed at the FastTrack Central forum.
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