This project is no longer under active development. The project is still public since it is available on crates.io. Use at your own risk.
Written in Rust, this program collects file metadata and stores it in a SQLite database. Some things it gathers include:
- File name
- Path
- Size
- XxHash checksum
In addition to collecting data about files, the program assists in indexing files with tools such as file tagging, search, and more. Development on these features is underway... stay tuned!
To run the project, you will need a SQLite database setup and configure the
.env
file in this project to point to your database file. See Configuration
section below.
Next, you will need to create the requisite tables by running the database setup process
cargo run -- --action setup
Next, set any remaining configuration values as detailed in Configuration.
Once the prerequisites are met, you may run or build the project with:
# To see help
cargo run -- --help
# To run
cargo run
# To build for release
cargo build --release
See Arguments section for details on the arguments this program accepts.
This app takes a minimum of one command line argument before it will perform any action beyond simply terminating. This section is divided into commands and subcommands.
You can specify one of several actions to use via the -a
or --action
command
flags followed by an action name. For now configuration beyond selecting an
action to perform is handled in the .env
file, see Configuration. Valid
actions are:
- duplicates - finds duplicate files within database via matching hashes.
- hash - computes hashes, file size, etc and stores results in database.
- orphans - iterates all database entries computed by hash action and does a simple check to see if files are still present. If a file is not present, its entry in the database will be removed.
Examples:
# Start hashing files:
cargo run -- --action hash
To create a tag without applying it to a listing, eg "puppy" use
cargo run -- new-tag puppy
To aid in searching for any given file, you can apply tags to a listing id which
in the future will be used as a search mechanism. For example, you could search
for all files containing the tag vacation
and viola 🎻, all files with
the tag applied are returned!
To tag a listing, whose id is 56982fc3-091a-489c-bd6c-c7f916965d4b, with tags
of summer
, beach
, and vacation
:
cargo run -- tag 56982fc3-091a-489c-bd6c-c7f916965d4b -- summer beach vacation
To remove a single tag applied to a listing, use the UUID in the id column of
listing_tags
to remove the applied tag association.
cargo run -- delete-tag-listing 56982fc3-091a-489c-bd6c-c7f916965d4b
Deleting a tag will remove it from the tags
table and all entries of where the
tag was in use on the listing_tags
table. Proceed with caution! To make this a
little harder to accidentally run, for now tags must be deleted with their UUID
in the id column within the tags
table.
cargo run -- delete-tag 56982fc3-091a-489c-bd6c-c7f916965d4b
.env
configuration setting include:
- DIRECTORY_TO_SCAN - root directory location to start scanning files from.
- SQLITE_CONNECTION - path where SQLite database file will be read/write from.
See documentation
folder for more information.
License is MIT. See LICENSE file.