Request: Software/Tool that fitx onto my portable disk to manage its contents

[freestyl...@yahoo.co.uk]

I thought that this forum might be best placed to answer my question.
After all its you great people that have inspired my request.

I have just purchase a wonderful Maxtor 300Gb portable storage device.
Ok its a bit big but great as an archive device.

I started copied my downloads, then my music and then my documents. And
then I realised..

What am I going to do when I'm looking for something on this disk. Ok
fair enough I can create folders etc, but really I need a fast search
tool something like google/yahoo desktop search agent.

Scenario:
1) You run a program that searches and records all information making
it easy to search.

2) This program then stores that database on the disk

3) There is an .exe or HTML file that allows me to display the disk
contents and search..

[Glenn Dixon]

I've been thinking on the same problem myself. I have probably 50GB
of data on two hard drives at home and they aren't indexed or
otherwise searchable. And after experiencing del.icio.us tags for the
last several weeks I want to use a tagged solution for my hard drives
as well.

Unfortunately I haven't found any such solutions out there yet (Windows)

--
Glenn Dixon
dix...@gmail.com

[Dennis C. During]

The new Mac OS has a great tool for this, I understand.

Google desktop search is supposed to be pretty good.

I'm pretty sure that this kind of thing will soon be a feature of Windows or
an inexpensive/free Windows add-on.

I'm also sure, without actually knowing the specifics, that there are six or
more windows applications that do this, at various price points, including
free/share/Beta-ware.


Dennis C. During
dcdu...@gmail.com

[simon...@gmail.com]

Spotlight is -amazing-, but since we seem to be talking Windows here I
won't rub it in. ;)

(hello everyone! This is my first post.)

If you're interested in a good desktop/local file search for Windows,
you may want to look at Copernic.

http://www.copernic.com/

[Bob Koss]

>
> If you're interested in a good desktop/local file search for Windows,
> you may want to look at Copernic.
>
> http://www.copernic.com/

That's what I use. It handles more file types than google's search.

[Lance Orner]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:33:57AM -0700, freestyl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> What am I going to do when I'm looking for something on this disk. Ok
> fair enough I can create folders etc, but really I need a fast search
> tool something like google/yahoo desktop search agent.

If you really like Google Desktop search (I do), there's the
"TweakGDS" plugin[1] from the plugins page[2], that will allow you to
pick which disks need to be index, where the index should be stored,
and how to force a manual index. Nice little util.

[1] http://desktop.google.com/plugins/tweakgds.html
[2] http://desktop.google.com/plugins.html

--
Lance Orner
la...@orner.net

[Chuck Rubin]

Try Copernicus Desktop search - its my favorite search tool. You can install
it on the portable device, although I am not sure whether all the files to
run it will be on the portable device or some will be installed on the
computer it was attached to when Copernicus is installed. You can definitely
tell it to store the index files on the portable drive, however.

Chuck

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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:33 PM
Subject: [43F Group] Request: Software/Tool that fitx onto my portable disk
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[Sriks]

My alter ego!!
I have been trawling the web for the exact same thing that you mention
here!

Why hasn't anyone thought of a tag based file manager?

[Andy Jones]

Having just posted to another thread that I don't get the A-Z filing
thing, I'll confess here that I have A System that I'm currently using
on both my computer and my physical files.

To simplify somewhat, do the following:

1) Go through a "life goals" exercise a la "7 habits". Work out all
the things that are important to you, things you spend time on.

2) Possibly add one or two goals to cater for the stuff you don't care
about but have to do anyway.

3) File things in a tree structure based upon these goals.

The idea is to make the demarcation between the top level "goals" as
clear as possible; then you can afford to wing it lower down.

In example, my current system (yours would be different) edited
slightly for privacy and massively for space:

BUSINESS - earning money, paying tax
business/cvs/andy
business/cvs/helen
business/prospects
business/interviews
business/tax
HOME - looking after the house, garden, cars
home/insurance
home/garden_design
LEISURE - having fun
FAMILY - family

etc...




--
Give me ambiguity, or give me something else.

[Dennis C. During]

If Covey Life Goals provides a stable framework for you, it should work.
Over time you would remember where things are filed even if they
subsequently come up in the context of another Goal or something that you
have not yet incorporated into your goal hierarchy.

Also, see my post to other thread.

Dennis C. During
dcdu...@gmail.com




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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:04 AM
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Subject: [43F Group] Re: Request: Software/Tool that fitx onto my portable
disk to manage its contents

[Andy Jones]

I think you've put your finger on it exactly with the word "stable".
I'd add "objective".

Any stable, objective framework would work fine. Covey's 'goals' is
just one example.

[Tom Reinhart]

Not GDS with plug-ins! :)

Sincerely,

Tom Reinhart
t...@alltom.com
http://AllTom.com/