I would like to have index of files which are stored on my \'off-line\' media de
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Question
I would like to have index of files which are stored on my 'off-line' media devices (external HDD's, SD cards, DVD's, CD's, floppy disks ;). So if there is an app using which I can know what file/directory is stored on which media (once they were scanned) without painful process of connecting them to my PC one-after-another and searching their content. Maybe such file database would have 10,000,000+ records, but I don't care.
Is there a software which can scan and keep basic information of files stored on removable media, so I can relatively easily determine which external HDD, SD card, DVD, CD, ... I have to grab when I need some file I stored there in the past?
features
ability to scan content of connected removable media (scanning of selected network folders would be welcome, too)
search in database by file name, path name, file date or other common attributes
search for duplicates based on common file attributes
scanning files in ZIP archives would be a nice option, too
Platform: preferably Windows (still you can share valuable advices for other platforms)
Price: preferably free or up to $50
Explanation / Answer
you can use command line on every os to do so.
If you need a filetree it is a more complex, but in general you can save a text document of the content with the hard drive into a txt or even better csv and import the csv into a database. You can find the commands pretty easily for windows, mac and linux.
for windows it would be
dir/s
for mac/linux it would be :
ls -R
It is getting more complex if you want to keep track of the contents. Removing Data or Moving Data from one drive to another drive would require a whole rescan. But that does not take too long. Hope that helps.