5/30/2023 0 Comments Alternative to neofinder 7![]() I’d be happy if that were all it did, but it does more. But after that part finished, I could search for any file on any disk and find it (or its offsite location) in a few seconds. It took a couple of days to index all 13 disks. ![]() ![]() NeoFinder (formerly CD Finder) to the Rescue!Ī couple of weeks ago I discovered an app called NeoFinder (formerly known as CD Finder) and it’s everything I hoped for and more. The best I could do until recently was print a screen shot of the disk’s contents and tape it to the disk. So it’s kinda useless for disks that aren’t mounted or stored elsewhere. While macOS’s Spotlight is great at what it does, it’s limited to disks mounted on your Mac. Overall, the system is almost perfect, but there’s been one thing missing: a master catalog of all of the millions of files-the ones stored locally, in my safe deposit box, and in the cloud. My Almost Perfect RegimenĪfter three decades of fine-tuning, my regimen includes Time Machine for hourly backups of all disks connected to my Mac Carbon Copy Cloner for bootable clones and duplicating local disks for offsite storage and Backblaze, for backing up to the cloud in real time. So, I have literally millions of files on thirteen hard disks stored in two locations (or three if you count the cloud). The backup disks are connected but I keep them unmounted (ejected) until they’re needed to avoid accidentally opening a backup copy instead of the original.įinally, since I’m a firm believer in redundant backups, I also keep backup copies of everything I’ve just mentioned (and more) on 6 hard disks I store in a safe deposit box and update every couple of months. How Many Disks Does That Require?Īll of this requires 6 large hard disks connected to my Mac at all times, plus three or four more hard disks used exclusively for backups. Plus, I’ve been shooting video and storing it on my Mac for more than two decades, so I have close to a terabyte of old homemade videos. My iTunes and Photos Libraries are each well over 1TB and I’ve got several terabytes of old files-books, columns, presentations, and more-that I’ll probably never need but can’t bear to delete. I have far more data than will fit on my MacBook Pro’s 1TB internal SSD.
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