App to list down all files and folders of drives?

[doctorized]

I have a couple of external hard drives that I use to store files. There are times that I look for a file, but I don't know which drive it's on. About 10 years ago I used a program which could record all the files that were on CDs and DVDs, so when I wanted to find a file, for example a song or a movie, I searched the list created by this program and found which disc it was on and in which subfolder. But I can't quite remember the name of the program to use it on the disks. A friend recommended VVV, Virtual Volumes View, but seems to be a little hard to use it. I t also createds a separate .vvv file for every drive. I tried Snap2HTML, seems easier to use but it is saving a separate file for each drive too. Do you have any other recommendations?

[boddhi]

Hello,

I don't know all the apps you've named and their features but why not create your own?

Personally, I've coded two apps for myself, one to list all my movies and epubs and another, working a little differently, for all my audio tracks.
This way, they meet exactly the needs that I have and that I don't always find in existing apps.
And only 3 databases, whatever the number of volumes. One for movies, one for ebooks and one for audio tracks.
But I could easily have just one.

You could use SQLite databases to store all the information you want to see.

[boddhi]

Here, a little screenshot of one of them.

 
I have my own routines for analyzing the metadata of each type of file (avi, mkv and mp4 for movies, epub and mobi for ebooks, mp3, flac, wma, ma4, mp4 and wav for audio tracks) or for retrieving information (such as synopsis and posters for movies) from the net.

[skywalk]

If windows, use robocopy scripts with NULL option or dir listing.
These are super fast and highly customizable.

[KosterNET]

I am extremely happy with FileLocator Pro from mythicsoft. I guess you can index all files on a removable harddisk as long as you do not set the index to run automatically.

https://www.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorpro/

I also use it to find applications or code that I have written before. As it has an index, you can even search inside files without having them available.

[AZJIO]

CD Collection 2.21 - but it has not been updated for a long time

[Quin]

I'm really happy with Voidtools' Everything. The alpha even has dupe finding, for example h: dupe;size->20mb

[highend]

Or e.g.: https://www.wincatalog.com/

[DarkDragon]

On linux I'd use find and grep. On windows you could download their windows executables or use WSL.