Hi Everybody,
A long time ago (about 20 years ago) I did the following to find files (not search ;-)):
dir . /b /s > c:\DirList.txt
This creates a text file in which each line contains the path and file name using the /s parameter from all directories.
Then I imported this text file into a Papyrus database.
The Papyrus database was so fast that even computers from 20 years ago could filter the entries faster than you could type.
Papyrus in this form no longer exists.
So I looked for databases. You find a lot there, but nothing that is so ultra-hyper-extremely simple that you could do it quickly - import this text file and save each line in your data field and then a standard filter would find entries that contain "xy".
For the internal SSD I use the everything tool from voidtools. It has a filter function. But it only reads the directories of connected disks.
I have several external hard drives that I don't always want to connect just to see if a certain file is on this or that hard drive.
Hence the question about an ultra-hyper-extremely-simple database with a filter function as described. Ultra-hyper-extremely-simple means no SQL, no complete database management system.
Import a text file or, for that matter, import a CSV file
In the import dialog, enter entire line in the data field
Import and you're done.
NOTHING with create a data source, connect the data source, configure the query, etc. etc.
Does somebody know such an ultra-extremly-simple database software?
