commandline identification tool for file used by Bohemia Interactive games.
Bidentify ( Pronounced: BeeEye-dentify )
The bidentify-client is a file identification utility used for detecting,finding and archiving usergenerated content for Bohemia Interactive games. The bidentity-client is part of the bidentity toolbox.
The Bidentity toolbox consists of several parts.
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The Bidentify-client is a commandline tool to scan, detect & identify Addons and Missions archives, folders or .pbo's
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The Bidentify-server is the database/web-backend for use with the bidentify-client,bidentify-node,bidentify-vault.
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The Bidentify-vault is a Torrent based file-archive that archives and seeds (ALL!) files which are listed in the Bidentify-server. This package is for dedicated librarians who want to preserve and longterm seed all data on the Bidentify server of your choice.
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The Bidentify-node is a Torrent based file-archive that seeds files ( limited to specific size) which are listed in the Bidentify server of your choice.
The bidentify client scans your local directories, and matches archive files and folders, and matches this against known-filelists downloaded from the a bidentify-server.
In the 20+ years that Bohemia Interactive has created games, many user-generated content was created and hosted on community websites like Armaholic.com. When time passes, resources get lost - and so does the content.
In an attempt to keep the old content alive, the bidentify project was started. It enables enthousiasts to find and keep old Bohemia-Interactive related files available to the public.
Download the executable version from the releases page :
Unpack the zipfile to a directory of your choice.
Add this directory to your windows PATH
Example: setx path "%path%;c:\DirectoryWithUnzippedContents"
In case there is a new update, just extract the contents of the zipfile in the exact same folder as you initially installed it.
Open a command-prompt and navigate to the folder of your schoice.
Run on the commandline : bidentify --help
Scans the current directory or the directory of choice.
bidentify scan [-d --directory=]
-d or --directory : Specify a custom directory to scan.
the indexfiles will be stored in the specified -or current working directory
Analyzes the current directory or the directory of choice.
bidentify analyze [-d --directory=]
-d or --directory : Specify a custom directory to scan.
Results will be written to a file called 'found.txt' in the specified -or current working directory
Updates the bidentify file-lists from the server.
bidentify update