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Hi everyone,

I used to use gtktalog in order to get an overview of the content of my external hard-drives. I can t find this program any more in Mageia.

Is there any good alternative to gtktalog ? any program for indexing all files on a hard drive ?

Thanks !
vmunich

Indexing as in getting a list of folders/files, and being able ot search in this list, or also searching within the content, e.g. inside PDF or .doc files?

Also, what desktop environment are you using currently?

Hi doktor

> Indexing as in getting a list of folders/files, and being able ot search in this list,
Yes !
I don t need to search within the content.

I m using KDE

Thanks for your help
Vincent

Well, for KDE, use goold old kfind, within Dolphin press Ctrl+F within the folder you want to search, then search for what you want, maybe using wildcards. That's what i'm doing.

If it's a bigger folder with many subfolders/files, press F4 to open a terminal in current folder and do an

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find ./ -iname "*searchterm*"

For a systemwide search in the filesystem, you could also use locate https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locate

Or did you want something different?

gtkatalog can handle a lot of complex archives. If you need it, you need it, a standard search doesn't cut it.

I set up a fellow with gtkatalog once, he had about 40 CDs with hundreds of files on each. Once scanned into gtkatalog he could search for something and it would tell him (for example) 'that file is the 22nd file on disk 37.

With a standard search you'd have to know which disk the file is on, otherwise just hunt and peck disk after disk until you stumble on it.

I haven't tried yet (I hope to have some time to test this) but I imagine the code is simple enough that you could use the upstream, or the latest if it's no longer being developed, and it'd work. Maybe try unpacking and running a version from Mandriva, rpmfind or wherever the latest version can be found.

There's always the option to compile from source, too. Wherever you find gtkatalog there should also be source code, eg the ".srpm" files Mageia uses.

Well, as possible alternatives there would be Griffith http://griffith.cc/ (but that's mainly intended for movies).

But, being as nice as i'm mostly, i've rebuilt the Mandriva package and attached it.
As the forum software doesn't allow the .rpm extension, you need to rename it and remove the .txt extension.
Please leave feedback if it works properly.

Thanks, doktor5000. I had to shell into my home server to test, but your package works perfectly.

I hope the OP has a 64 bit system.

If not, leave a short note, and i'll rebuild it for i586 ...

Thanks a lot Doktor, it works !!!

Vincent

Please mark the topic solved vmunich.
You can do so by editing the first message in the topic.
Pre-fix the subject/tile with [SOLVED].

Thanks in advance!!!