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why Why doesn't changing a filefile's name doesn't change it'sits checksum?

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As far as I know changing even a bit of a file, will change the whole checksum result, but when I change a file's name this does not affect on it'sits checksum (I've tried SHA-1, SHA-256 and MD5).

Why? file name is not a part of file data? does it depend on file system?

As far as I know changing even a bit of a file, will change the whole checksum result, but when I change a file's name this does not affect on it's checksum (I've tried SHA-1, SHA-256 and MD5).

Why? file name is not a part of file data? does it depend on file system?

As far as I know changing even a bit of a file, will change the whole checksum result, but when I change a file's name this does not affect its checksum (I've tried SHA-1, SHA-256 and MD5).

Why? file name is not a part of file data? does it depend on file system?

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Amir reza Riahi
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why changing a file name doesn't change it's checksum?

As far as I know changing even a bit of a file, will change the whole checksum result, but when I change a file's name this does not affect on it's checksum (I've tried SHA-1, SHA-256 and MD5).

Why? file name is not a part of file data? does it depend on file system?