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Thread #91794   Message #1748112
Posted By: GUEST,petr
26-May-06 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Searchable Disk Directories?
Subject: Tech: Searchable Disk Directories?
Im looking for a relatively easy way to search disk directories.
We are a printshop and we have our graphic files backed up on close to a 100 cds (going back 8 years)
Just to explain, the files that we back up are jobs that are done over a given period - roughly every 2 months or so.
They are not categorized by type or customer, it is simply a backup of
jobs done at a given time.
(In general we dont need to search the system too often,
the commonly used customer logos etc are already on the hard disk. And most of the work that is done usually newly created or customer supplied.
But once in a while if we need to retrieve something, we can look up on the invoicing system when the last order was done, and glance through the directory binder to find the disk and given file.)
It would be faster though to have the computer do the search.

My question is whether there is a simple way to dump the directories of all the disks in a big text file and search that.
Any suggestions?