For your information, that's Tibb's website. However, I think it may depend on the available width in your browser - if there's not enough, the size column gets wrapped and you have newlines inserted between files.
I want to thank both of you very much. You've given me some good solutions and toe-holds to other ideas. I had worked up a scanner that updated a merged pivot spreadsheet (to keep it light), but it was lacking in so many ways.
My friend has 16 TiB collection spanned over about a dozen so so HDDs. He uses a DC++ client to catalog the data and uses the file list made to find the anime he wants. The file-list is in XML format.
I also use it.
Downside is, since those clients are made for sharing data, they hash all of it which takes a lot of time (took me two days to hash 2x4 TB + 1x2 TB HDDs)
If you are going to use it, you'd need to open your client and open your own file-list. BTW I use DC++, although ApexDC and AirDC are lighter.
You could always assign all your drives to the same letter, provided you don't have more than one plugged in at the same time.
It's certainly an odd setup though. With single hard drives up to 6TB available these days, most people don't need many, and there's usually not much of a reason to disconnect the few hard drives that you do have. And others just have NAS boxes.
If you never/rarely update the contents of a drive, using the DIR command, redirecting the output to a text file, suggested above, is actually quite practical.
Otherwise, there are a few technical difficulties with trying to make an application which does this, such as the overhead of scanning the whole drive every time it is connected, how to identify drives (as well as which ones need to be indexed, if they're constantly being swapped in/out), dealing with potential drive letter changes etc. Still, it seems theoretically possible, although I'm surprised that you say you can't find anything. A quick search for "usb hard drive catalog files" seems to turn up a number of results such as http://superuser.com/questions/759193/...-store-off
The problem so far with optical media solutions is they don't address the drives issue -- all just d:\ or whatever. And the others, so far, behave like Microsoft, from a conception of all hard drives attached all the time, detach drive --> remove data. Even Picasso. I guess I'm ahead of the curve or out of the mainstream on using USB drives. But I am surprised if I'm the only AT users with this problem.
Thanks anyway. If I have to build it from the ground up, maybe I'll name it for AnimeTosho.
I know there's a bunch of CD/DVD cataloging applications around to help people, with a large collection of archived optical media, organise and find stuff. It should be similar to what you need. I've never used any, but perhaps try searching for those and see if they work for you.
I have an anime collection that spans several USB hard drives. The drives are only connected when I'm working with that drive.
I'd like a single master directory on my laptop internal drive that displays the name of the folders and files of all the external drives even when they are disconnected, so I would know which drive to plug in to find a certain show.
It would be nice if this master directory could also sort by folder name, drive, or date.
Any suggestions? I've been looking around sourceforge and cnet, but gakk. I'm also wondering if OpenOffice could do it.
(Note: Win7 includes a library function that would be ok except won't retain/display the contents of disconnected drives.)
there're no ads on this site, does it happen only here? I think your browser might be infected with some toolbar or similar PuP stuff, better if you do a browser scan with avast or similar programs and update your browser, I recommend firefox though.
I think you're right about my browser being hijacked or something like that ... I opened my router page via its IP and got the same popup.. so it's my own problem, thanks for confirming that ..
I will format this pc asap and reply you again after that... sorry for any troubles I may caused you ^^
Edit: The site is clean on the portable version of Firefox .. I feel ashamed after saying all that lol..Thanks to all of you for helping me .. will start format this weekend :)
There are no third party ads or trackers here whatsoever. In fact, there are no third party requests when visiting pages on AT at all, with some exceptions: - older /view/* pages had images hosted on Imgur/Imageshack - /series/* pages pull images from AniDB
Apart from that, all requests should either be coming from animetosho.org or storage.animetosho.org domains. If there's anything else, I suspect your browser may be hijacked.
Try this - download a fresh copy of Firefox Portable or Palemoon Portable, close your browser and use that to browse this site. Do you get any ads with that?
it's not just that .. the virus site is arabyonline.com which appeared now when I opened the site and clicked on feedback link, it seems that the first click when you open the site makes the ad popup...here's another screenshot.. please remove that **** site, it makes the browsers get infected and cause many problems ...
Edit: I just figured it ... I can right click on one of the addresses in the adblocker list like what's in that screenshot and choose "block this item" then it won't appear .. hope so .. will reply if it gets blocked forever in future uses
I always use turbobit from the sites that upload on it. I don't expect the filehoster have problem but I asked because I had a popup ad, nothing major as .. maybe I had that problem from another site.. dunno
I just .. just had an ad from adnetworkus.com when I clicked on Animetosho on the upper left to refresh the list ... I don't have any problems with your links but it's annoying even my adblocker plus can't block everything ... http://puu.sh/9rySw/5bc3b14027.png
By any chance, have you been looking up older subtitles? We used to host those on tny.cz. They've recently added nasty persistent pop-under ads whenever you visit their site. By nasty, I mean you have to close it several times and it can come back on a re-start. But stay off their page and it goes away.
This site doesn't have ads what so ever the Admin is nice enough not to ad any.
And I have never once gotten something from this site that's a virus or something.
Also what filehosting site do you normally download from? Maybe it could be from one of those sites then again I dunno since I have like three things on my browsers to block stuff.
On the homepage you can find AT supports a nyaa filter - you can hide remakes, show A+/trusted only, or A+ only, albeit this won't catch release groups that don't mark their releases properly or don't use nyaa. Of course you can circumvent this by creating an account and putting specific tags (such as the group name) in the blacklist in your user control panel.
Mega was removed a while ago because they no longer allow anonymous uploads and with the measly 50GB of storage an account wouldn't even last a day, so it would be pointless.
Please, consider adding Mega.co.nz. It is great and fast and as in Solid Files it's ''File hosting without the bullshit.'' Jheberg supports it so swap it with one of the slow servers. Great service and will totally keep using it even if you don't add MEGA :P
21/06/2014 01:10 — ninjacloud