I purchased BaseElements from Goya in mid December and it is a must have tool from my perspective as a FileMaker developer.
As it is though, I’ve got a terabyte I need getting rid of and I think I can use it to guide me to some quick scores. If it was smart enough to tell me what to delete without my searching on big folders, I’d be totally sold. Now that I have my hard drive files and directories safely in FileMaker, I’m still playing around with DiskCatalogMaker to see what all it can do. Remember, I got a lot more hard drives left to do but it is going to be very fast to get them in here. I might learn something about FileMaker 9’s capabilities when handling a 1/2 million records at a time along the way. If you want to be able to use filemaker to see how many copies of things you have, give DiskCatalogMaker a try!įor me this is fun and is a great relief.
I can always create a calculation to get that drive name back into the path if I need it.įrom here, I’ll do a bit more cleaning and perhaps export summary data cause I don’t really want to know all the files on here or at least want to work with less than about 500,000 files for most purposes. I got rid of the hard drive as part of the path for my current purposes and put that name into its own hard drive field.
#Diskcatalogmaker duplicates full#
Name is the full file path with the file name at the right of that path. I wound up with a 179 mb file after I had done some Finds and Replace commands on it.
#Diskcatalogmaker duplicates pro#
I just dragged and dropped the exported text file onto FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced and it gave me the option to use the first row as field names – choose yes. It creates a tab-delimited (I think) file with 5 fields: Name, Size, Type, Creator, Date Modified. Then you have a nice and handy export to text button. You select a hard drive and it scans that sucker into its own catalog in 3 minutes or so for maybe 300 gigs of files. You select Scan and it gives you an open dialog. MacDiskCatalog is a nice little Cocoa app. You get 60 days to try this out with full functionality so that’s where I am with it for now. Voilà, I found one called DiskCatalogMaker and it works great. Today is a new day, and I wanted a utility to give me the contents of a drive as a text file. That lead to me typing in about 50 folders and a couple drives. I can’t imagine someone hasn’t added this to an automator script but I couldn’t find one on short notice. I looked in Automator to see if it would take a folder and give me a list of its contents as text. So, I figured, I’ll create a FileMaker database: a table called hard drives and a table called folders. To do this, I need to eliminate 1 terabyte worth of redundancy in a hurry. That means I need to move a terabyte somewhere else temporarily.
I was getting into the project last night because I have a misbehaving 1 terabyte drive I need to exchange. I don’t seem to ever get around to reconciling them so that I can stop buying hard drives for a while. I don’t know about you, but as a FileMaker developer, I have about 12 usable hard drives in my house.
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