I was wondering if it's possible to retrieve the content md5 given a file's Synapse ID. I am using the Python client and have been doing this in a more roundabout way by first fetching the entity (without downloading the content) and then accessing the entity md5. However, I'd like to know if there is a faster way to do this. Many thanks, Meredith (posting on behalf of another user)

Created by Meredith Slota meredith
Hi @Meredith : Unfortunately there is not. We have an open feauture request to add this metadata along with filesize etc to [file views](http://docs.synapse.org/articles/views.html).

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