File history tool?
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Is there any tool to hold a history of locations of a file? Sometimes I'm looking for a file that I know was beside another one, but it's moved. I wish there was a property attached to each file called History. History starts from where the file came from (Either Internet, flash memory, CD/DVD, etc), where it moved to until it's current location. Selecting each location in the history should list all other files which were beside it in that time. Selecting each file should show it's current location. (This looks like a big change in the file system. :-D ) This makes it much easier to me to find some of my files considering the fact that most of my files don't change more than 3 or 4 folders during their lifetime.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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Is there any tool to hold a history of locations of a file? Sometimes I'm looking for a file that I know was beside another one, but it's moved. I wish there was a property attached to each file called History. History starts from where the file came from (Either Internet, flash memory, CD/DVD, etc), where it moved to until it's current location. Selecting each location in the history should list all other files which were beside it in that time. Selecting each file should show it's current location. (This looks like a big change in the file system. :-D ) This makes it much easier to me to find some of my files considering the fact that most of my files don't change more than 3 or 4 folders during their lifetime.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
Not a viable option, IMO. It would cost disk space to store the history, and also copy/move operations would be slower because the history would need to be updated on every such occasion.
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Not a viable option, IMO. It would cost disk space to store the history, and also copy/move operations would be slower because the history would need to be updated on every such occasion.
blackjack2150 wrote:
It would cost disk space
That's right. One reason I stopped using desktop search after a while. Maybe if it was part of the file system it would affect performance much less. I sometimes wish file system in an OS was much like a database so regardless of how and where data is stored we could work with it. Search could be much faster and many different type of user interfaces would be created that use quick queries to access several different information in different manners. Possibilities were endless. I think MS WinFS had such ideas in mind, I'm not sure though.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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Is there any tool to hold a history of locations of a file? Sometimes I'm looking for a file that I know was beside another one, but it's moved. I wish there was a property attached to each file called History. History starts from where the file came from (Either Internet, flash memory, CD/DVD, etc), where it moved to until it's current location. Selecting each location in the history should list all other files which were beside it in that time. Selecting each file should show it's current location. (This looks like a big change in the file system. :-D ) This makes it much easier to me to find some of my files considering the fact that most of my files don't change more than 3 or 4 folders during their lifetime.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
Not exactly what you're asking for but there's Google Desktop.
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Is there any tool to hold a history of locations of a file? Sometimes I'm looking for a file that I know was beside another one, but it's moved. I wish there was a property attached to each file called History. History starts from where the file came from (Either Internet, flash memory, CD/DVD, etc), where it moved to until it's current location. Selecting each location in the history should list all other files which were beside it in that time. Selecting each file should show it's current location. (This looks like a big change in the file system. :-D ) This makes it much easier to me to find some of my files considering the fact that most of my files don't change more than 3 or 4 folders during their lifetime.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
It's available since Win2003 for server OSes, and Vista on the desktop. Enable shadow copies, decide on a schedule, allocate disk space to set aside for this, and you are set. A Client[^] needs to be installed on W2K/XP boxes to see the history of network shares. Works great, and saved some asses work hours already.
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It's available since Win2003 for server OSes, and Vista on the desktop. Enable shadow copies, decide on a schedule, allocate disk space to set aside for this, and you are set. A Client[^] needs to be installed on W2K/XP boxes to see the history of network shares. Works great, and saved some asses work hours already.
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blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistThanks. Great to see a dream created already. I'll sure read about it and start using it. Thank you so much.:rose:
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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Is there any tool to hold a history of locations of a file? Sometimes I'm looking for a file that I know was beside another one, but it's moved. I wish there was a property attached to each file called History. History starts from where the file came from (Either Internet, flash memory, CD/DVD, etc), where it moved to until it's current location. Selecting each location in the history should list all other files which were beside it in that time. Selecting each file should show it's current location. (This looks like a big change in the file system. :-D ) This makes it much easier to me to find some of my files considering the fact that most of my files don't change more than 3 or 4 folders during their lifetime.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
It may not help you much, but Apple's time machine comes pretty close to what you want, actually it's a full backup of every state of every file on your system. You can open a folder that once contained the file you're looking for and then move back in time until you see the file popping up, if it was moved or deleted.
Mark C Hagers New Media Ventures Amersfoort, the Netherlands
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It may not help you much, but Apple's time machine comes pretty close to what you want, actually it's a full backup of every state of every file on your system. You can open a folder that once contained the file you're looking for and then move back in time until you see the file popping up, if it was moved or deleted.
Mark C Hagers New Media Ventures Amersfoort, the Netherlands
I don't own a Mac, but it looks like too much overhead for achieving my goal. I just need a history of where a file was, not a complete(or partial like ShadowCopy) copy of it. All I imagine is a list of strings linked together in a relational database that hold extra information about files (some sort of metadata).
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni