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September 16, 2014

Project Idea: harddisk search engine

by viggy — Categories: FSMK, project — Tags: , , , , , 2 Comments

I do have loads of media files in my two external harddisks, one of 3TB and another of 1TB. And overtime the data is all over the place, in some cases, there are duplicates also and there is currently no way, I can easily remember if I have a particular data or not. Over all its a mess. Hence I need a good way to arrange all of this data and have a cache of its metadata in my laptop, so that it becomes very easy for me to search whether I have a particular media file available with me or not. Media can be anything from movies, documentaries, songs, iso images, series, etc.

So this are the requirements of such a software:

  •  Do full scan of HDD connected and collect all data available in it.
    • User should be able to give a minimum/maximum size of interest(files less than say 1MB may not be of importance)
    • User should be able to give formats of interest(User may just want video files to be listed/searched)
  • Should be able to update an existing scan so that only new files are added to it again
  • Using the collected data, user should be able to search a particular file based on filename/filetype/size etc