Scanning folders?

April 30, 2008 6:12 AM

At work, we have an extensive amount of applications that are just dumped, seemingly randomly, into various folders on a network share. Is there an application that can scan or index these folders in some way, and present the results in a way that can be sorted by name, date, etc.?
posted by Shakes the Clown to technology (7 comments total)

If there's a common denominator on the files, windows search will effectively handle this.
posted by PowerCat at 6:47 AM on April 30, 2008

You should be able to do some quick and nasty command line directory listing, then play with the data in a text file

prompt> dir /S >fileList.txt
posted by jacalata at 6:49 AM on April 30, 2008

Coincidentally, I just installed Windows Desktop Search and am indexing this huge directory. I'm not really a fan of Google Desktop, as it just throws everything into one huge list, with very limited sorting. I'm interested in seeing if WDS does a better job.
posted by Shakes the Clown at 7:06 AM on April 30, 2008

I presume you mean application saves, rather than applications?
posted by Quarter Pincher at 8:05 AM on April 30, 2008

If you dont care about location, you can easily use Windows search and move them all into the same folder. Then you can sort by name, date, size, etc.
posted by mphuie at 10:48 AM on April 30, 2008

I used Windows Search for about a day, then uninstalled because it was an absolute processor whore . . . I appreciate the input!
posted by Shakes the Clown at 7:26 AM on May 2, 2008

Dude... Press F3. it's just the normal windows search function. No need to index anything.
posted by PowerCat at 1:25 PM on May 2, 2008