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dstonek
Asked: 2023-08-11 06:49:32 +0800 CST

Hard disks cataloguer needed

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22.04.
I would like to achieve something like I use in my Mac: Neofinder is a program that builds a database with all the directories and files (and some of their properties) of any hard disk I ask to catalog. It has an updater to regularly update data of the connected HDs.
It is very useful because I also can search on disks that are not connected but they were catalogued.

I installed Catfish but it makes a live search only on the selected HD (it has a bug: cannot 'Show in File Manager' option).

Also tried Katalog. It is a better approach but it is to slow (I understand that first time cataloging a disk would be slow). It creates a csv file.
I scanned a disk and Create Catalog goes to 'Katalog is not responding' for a long time, then Force Quit (this is after it gets the HD file/dir tree).
I'm not asking here for help on Katalog, just for another program option.

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  1. Best Answer

    You could use QDirStat's qdirstat-cache-writer in a cron job to keep information about permanently mounted filesystems up to date, and trigger it manually for removable disks.

    If you use its -l option, you can use those files as a very quick locate replacement with a simple zgrep call.

    And of course you can load each of those files into the QDirStat GUI to inspect that directory tree visually.

    See

    https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat/blob/master/scripts/README.md

    --

    HuHa (QDirStat author)

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