Windows 10: Asking about two identically-sized huge files from the May upgrade in the Windows Update...

19043.928.210409-1212.21h1_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_x64FRE_en-us.esdand19043.928.210409-1212.21h1_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_x64FRE_en-us.esd_Each is nearly 4 GB in size. Both in the same directory, the Windows 10Upgrade directory , located on the D: drive, the Recovery Drive, as it's known.I understand that Windows can make use of this data in case of restoring a broken machine. What I don't know is if they contain the same or different data?I wonder, because I was having difficulty during the installation of the "upgrade" as many did: repeatedly updating, then undo

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windows.edb keeps growing to huge file size.

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Extracting Zip Files


Are the step-by-step processes identical? That is, the folder extracted from and the folder extracted to belong to the same hierarchical file system structure. If they are, that suggests mildly the Cumulative Update left an electron or two out of place.

 

Identical File Finder

@Ford
I don't think that step #3 is even needed. The probabiliy of two MD5 hashes from differing files colliding is what, 2^-128 ?
Even if your were hashing a million files the odds of a hash collision on differing files is astronomically small.