CFsrch - Catalogue File Searcher
First alpha version was released, if you are interested, download it from SourceForge.net project pages
Anyone who have passion in helping creation of such a program or want to give a feedback :
Just write me to tachyon.eagle[at]gmail.com
Basic description :
Project Description: Catalogue File searcher is utility which creates files catalogs from local disks,
CDs,LAN and then allow fast,accurate and intelligent searching of 1 needle within a heap of
million files. Based for win32 platform, hoped to be OS independent one day.
Reason to build such a tool were that most search tools are very slow, when considering local disks search and that most catalogizing tools can't cope with advanced details (like storing mp3 tags), large number of files and they don't
posses enough abilities to perform easy scripts with found results
- development priorities/features : instant searching (16M files within second), ability to handle large number of positive results (even whole collection)
- catalog "refresh" shouldn't take more than 5 minutes for 500K files
- store type-specific information (mp3 tags, video length)
- store thousand of similar files just like sequence {frames of a video file}
- similar to docSearch , myCatalogue(very slow refresh by my opinion) from sourceforge, but this one is not concentrated on fulltext searching, rather on ability to work with large collections of files
- plans to develop currently existing version (without user friendly interface) for win32 platform and transform it into
at least linux compatible version,
- C++ would be probably used for all versions, javascript/java applet would be solution for the web-based interface
Updates :
2005.08.22 : - project is a lot of frozen now, because implementing GUI is making me problems= I don't have too much time for it, but I've implemented some helpful utilities recently , they allow to search for duplicate files easily and to project indexed files back into filesystem (good for offline browsing of cds for example), I'll try to post them here in near future and hopefully to update a project at least a little bit, but free time is my primary problem right now.
- probably obsolete by now , however linux versions are still in dream-todo list : (small update as of 2004.11.09 : linux (t)csh script version is planned within my mind, cause it can be so simple..., even though with limited features)
Screenshots from development of GUI:
GUI is not ready, but it would look like this, many functions stacked in little space ...
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