Support > Applications

Finding files on UnRAID shares

<< < (2/2)

StevenD:
Another +1 for Locate.  I have it set to index the most used shares on a daily basis, and the not-so-used ones on a weekly basis.  I have it set to run after my nightly backups, so drives are already spun up.

opentoe:
Yea, it would be real nice to access my unraid box via web page and have a real nice file management utility built in. I know those things take resources and chew up memory, so I would probably have it run on my Windows 7 workhorse computer and then just save the results to the DB. If something like that even is around.

Alex.vision:
If your going to be on windows 7 computer you can use indexyourfiles. It can scan your network shares or mapped network drives. I have a separate db for each network computer including my Unraid server.  It does have to be manually refreshed but if you don't change files too often that shouldn't be a problem. I'm not sure on the formatting of the database but I bet you could get it to a web page if you know some coding. It takes about 6 minutes to scan my server of about 20TB and 754,038 files.

Bizarroterl:
If you're looking for a tool that will search for files by name and is able to search inside files take a look at superfinderxt.  It's what the search in Windows should be.

opentoe:

--- Quote from: Alex.vision on June 28, 2012, 10:22:55 PM ---If your going to be on windows 7 computer you can use indexyourfiles. It can scan your network shares or mapped network drives. I have a separate db for each network computer including my Unraid server.  It does have to be manually refreshed but if you don't change files too often that shouldn't be a problem. I'm not sure on the formatting of the database but I bet you could get it to a web page if you know some coding. It takes about 6 minutes to scan my server of about 20TB and 754,038 files.

--- End quote ---

I'm trying this little utility now. Pretty cool. It doesn't let me include network path names, just mapped drives. Not a big deal, but it does seem to operate pretty quickly. And built into it is a pretty nice search. I'll use it for a while and see how it goes. Thanks.

**update**
The program is letting me use direct network paths. Very nice. So I can even break down my indexed database by share or however I want to make it easy for me to find something.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page