On Thu, 11/21/2024 6:40 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.
Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?
Ed
I don't have a NAS but do have a small network and use Everything for searches and deletes similar to yours.
Wow!It's some time since I last used Everything, and it always surprises me just how fast it is.
It didn't pick up on the NAS drive plugged into my router, but it picked up drives on USB.
Everything has the option to connect to an ETP server, I wonder if I could somehow connect to the router NAS with some protocol.
Ed
Something has to run on the NAS server, to maintain information
which is always up-to-date. The NAS knows when it has added or
deleted a file from its local disk, whereas the clients connected
to the NAS, don't know that.
"Windows Federated Search and Synology NASs"
https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/14355
Your local disk, uses the USN Change Journal on an NTFS
file system, to keep the Windows Search up-to-date on
what files were added or deleted. This is how Everything.exe ,
after doing its "full" scan to populate the file list, it
receives notifications about file additions and deletions.
Everything.exe updates its lists. This does not work on
FAT32, and the Everything.exe documentation refers to that
issue (that FAT32 has no USN Change Journal). Similarly,
indexing a FAT32 with Windows Search, has the same gaping
hole, that new files can't be detected.
The NAS needs to play games like this, and operate some sort
of interface to support search. Whether any NAS product
does this today, I'm not a NAS person and don't know. The
Google search only gave me one reference, the above one, that
was relevant, and all the rest of the twaddle from the Google
AI was a waste of electrons.
While a NAS can have a privately implemented search function
(a separate App that talks to the NAS daemon for search), that means
opening a separate App rather than using File Explorer. This is not
likely to be pleasant. Maybe it "only works on your Phone".
Paul
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