After 20 years or so of ripping CDs and downloading music files, I have maybe 10 or so drives of various sizes filled to the brim with music files. Many duplicates and even triplicates over the years as I made backups or copied files around for various reasons.
One of the drives is an 8TB, most are 2 and 4 tb drives, and then some USB stick drives.
So it is quite a horrow show of duplication and no way to easily search or find the music.
There must be a lot of us that have this problem?
It is my understanding that each physcial drive unit has a unique hardware ID, similiar to MAC addresses for network cards.
If that is the case, is there some program that would allow me to build an inventory of the files based on the drive ID so that I eventually could have a way to know what is on each drive?
If not, maybe it is time for me to write one in powershell and sql server..
LT
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Topic - Help, what a mess! - LtMandella 16:03:50 09/29/20 (100)
- I'm nearing a 1000 CDs, so about a Terabyte - jedrider 10:53:16 10/05/20 (7)
- Significantly less - AbeCollins 15:48:06 10/06/20 (2)
- RE: Significantly less - LtMandella 07:35:20 10/07/20 (1)
- RE: Significantly less - Cut-Throat 05:17:59 10/14/20 (0)
- Much less space. - E-Stat 11:02:32 10/05/20 (2)
- RE: Much less space. - LtMandella 07:42:28 10/07/20 (1)
- Will easily fit - E-Stat 08:32:06 10/07/20 (0)
- RE: I'm nearing a 1000 CDs, so about a Terabyte - LtMandella 10:59:32 10/05/20 (0)
- RE: the Powershell code for inventorying - LtMandella 10:10:30 10/05/20 (23)
- Geez... - E-Stat 10:54:53 10/05/20 (22)
- RE: Geez... - LtMandella 11:03:57 10/05/20 (20)
- RE: Geez... - rivervalley817 11:14:40 10/05/20 (2)
- RE: Geez... - LtMandella 11:19:08 10/05/20 (1)
- RE: Geez... - rivervalley817 11:34:34 10/05/20 (0)
- It appears - E-Stat 11:06:35 10/05/20 (16)
- RE: It appears - LtMandella 11:14:39 10/05/20 (15)
- Curious... - E-Stat 11:40:18 10/05/20 (8)
- RE: Curious... - LtMandella 11:56:57 10/05/20 (7)
- Not trying to beat up on you - E-Stat 12:12:42 10/05/20 (6)
- RE: Not trying to beat up on you - LtMandella 12:31:59 10/05/20 (5)
- RE: Not trying to beat up on you - E-Stat 13:07:41 10/05/20 (4)
- RE: Not trying to beat up on you - LtMandella 13:18:49 10/05/20 (3)
- RE: Not trying to beat up on you - E-Stat 13:45:30 10/05/20 (2)
- RE: Not trying to beat up on you - LtMandella 14:45:19 10/05/20 (0)
- RE: Not trying to beat up on you - LtMandella 14:20:32 10/05/20 (0)
- RE: It appears - rivervalley817 11:29:04 10/05/20 (5)
- RE: It appears - LtMandella 13:05:52 10/05/20 (2)
- RE: It appears - rivervalley817 14:30:13 10/05/20 (1)
- RE: It appears - LtMandella 07:52:03 10/07/20 (0)
- RE: It appears - LtMandella 12:50:24 10/05/20 (1)
- RE: It appears - rivervalley817 14:18:20 10/05/20 (0)
- +1 - rivervalley817 11:01:47 10/05/20 (0)
- RE:results of inventory - LtMandella 17:20:10 10/04/20 (11)
- RE:results of inventory - Rod M 20:08:21 10/04/20 (10)
- RE:results of inventory - LtMandella 21:13:23 10/04/20 (0)
- RE:results of inventory - LtMandella 20:25:46 10/04/20 (8)
- RE:results of inventory - rivervalley817 21:22:11 10/04/20 (7)
- RE:results of inventory - LtMandella 22:31:25 10/04/20 (6)
- RE:results of inventory - E-Stat 06:58:51 10/05/20 (5)
- RE:results of inventory - LtMandella 09:18:53 10/05/20 (4)
- RE:results of inventory - rivervalley817 10:11:48 10/05/20 (3)
- RE:results of inventory - LtMandella 14:33:45 10/05/20 (2)
- RE:results of inventory - rivervalley817 14:39:52 10/05/20 (1)
- RE:results of inventory - LtMandella 14:52:22 10/05/20 (0)
- What kind of drives do you have? - Rod M 19:58:11 10/03/20 (2)
- RE: What kind of drives do you have? - LtMandella 20:05:54 10/03/20 (1)
- RE: What kind of drives do you have? - rivervalley817 21:03:05 10/03/20 (0)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - Rod M 18:26:14 10/03/20 (1)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - LtMandella 20:38:03 10/03/20 (0)
- That's a lot of music - J.Mac 14:37:54 10/02/20 (0)
- They have 16TB harddrives now - jedrider 12:24:21 10/01/20 (5)
- RE: They have 16TB harddrives now - LtMandella 12:36:00 10/01/20 (4)
- RE: They have 16TB harddrives now - AbeCollins 13:16:45 10/02/20 (3)
- RE: They have 16TB harddrives now - LtMandella 20:23:09 10/03/20 (2)
- RE: They have 16TB harddrives now - AbeCollins 07:35:25 10/04/20 (1)
- RE: They have 16TB harddrives now - LtMandella 07:57:02 10/04/20 (0)
- CCleaner, aka "Crap Cleaner" - E-Stat 07:54:11 09/30/20 (1)
- RE: CCleaner, aka "Crap Cleaner" - Tuckers 13:18:17 10/21/20 (0)
- I use Beyond Compare for file management - tketcham 07:01:52 09/30/20 (0)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - soundchekk 00:04:41 09/30/20 (11)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - LtMandella 16:39:04 09/30/20 (6)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - rivervalley817 16:57:31 09/30/20 (5)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - LtMandella 17:07:31 09/30/20 (4)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - rivervalley817 17:44:16 09/30/20 (3)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - LtMandella 17:49:06 09/30/20 (2)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - rivervalley817 18:16:01 09/30/20 (1)
- RE: Help, what a mess! - LtMandella 19:33:17 09/30/20 (0)
- RE: So true. - tketcham 07:10:50 09/30/20 (3)
- RE: So true. - soundchekk 08:44:00 09/30/20 (2)
- RE: So true. - AbeCollins 13:33:38 09/30/20 (0)
- RE: So true. - tketcham 10:37:38 09/30/20 (0)
- Perhaps your player will help ?? - AbeCollins 16:36:02 09/29/20 (1)
- RE: Perhaps your player will help ?? - LtMandella 16:53:37 09/29/20 (0)
- Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - Cut-Throat 16:08:11 09/29/20 (26)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - kh6idf 16:23:22 09/29/20 (13)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - LtMandella 13:15:10 09/30/20 (3)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - rivervalley817 13:26:03 09/30/20 (2)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - LtMandella 14:16:30 09/30/20 (1)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - rivervalley817 14:22:16 09/30/20 (0)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - LtMandella 16:34:11 09/29/20 (8)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - Ryelands 10:20:59 09/30/20 (1)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - LtMandella 10:37:19 09/30/20 (0)
- Presumably... - E-Stat 08:03:20 09/30/20 (5)
- RE: Presumably... - LtMandella 09:30:08 09/30/20 (4)
- Well... - E-Stat 09:56:29 09/30/20 (3)
- RE: Well... - LtMandella 10:22:24 09/30/20 (2)
- Holy cow - that's a lot of data! - E-Stat 10:49:42 09/30/20 (1)
- RE: Holy cow - that's a lot of data! - AbeCollins 13:53:04 09/30/20 (0)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - LtMandella 16:22:20 09/29/20 (11)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - zacster 05:09:37 09/30/20 (10)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - LtMandella 09:06:58 10/01/20 (9)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - Cut-Throat 13:20:28 10/01/20 (8)
- RE: Nope!, Never had that problem ....................... - LtMandella 13:36:26 10/01/20 (7)
- J.River Mac Version Sonic Comparison - MRMB 13:43:33 10/09/20 (6)
- RE: J.River Mac Version Sonic Comparison - LtMandella 18:47:33 10/09/20 (4)
- RE: J.River Mac Version Sonic Comparison - MRMB 09:41:10 10/10/20 (3)
- RE: J.River Mac Version Sonic Comparison - LtMandella 10:26:52 10/10/20 (2)
- RE: J.River Mac Version Sonic Comparison - rivervalley817 10:41:23 10/10/20 (1)
- RE: J.River Mac Version Sonic Comparison - LtMandella 19:48:50 10/10/20 (0)
- RE: J.River Mac Version Sonic Comparison - LtMandella 14:48:56 10/09/20 (0)