labelling files: storing on type & find a file on subject

[Lennart]

Hi there,

Is there some software around what does the following trick:

We al have several documents. Some you can store by type (doc in /doc, xls
in /xls) some by subject (work in /work, car in /car). For some reasons,
i'm looking for a solution, whereby i can put every file into his own
type-dir (so, all doc's are going to /doc, al xls are going to /xls), but
find the files back trough labels (or tags, or ...).

I know, you can add a "subject"column in the explorer, but that's a little
much work to do that with each file. So, i'm looking for a sort of explorer
replacement that can filter by type and subject (at least). You get
something like this in the tree:
+ by type
| - /docs
| - /xls
+ by subject
| - /car
| - /work
etc

foobar1.doc and foobar2.doc are stored in /docs, but foobar1 is labeled as
car and foobar2 as work. foobar3.xls is in /xls and labeled as car.
Clicking on the different node's will result in something like:

+ by type
| - /docs [foobar1.doc and foobar2.doc]
| - /xls [foobar3.xls]
+ by subject
| - /car [foobar1.doc and foobar3.xls
| - /work [foobar2.doc]
etc


O, and it has to be working AFTER a reinstall of windows.

 

[rich]

Hi there,

Is there some software around what does the following trick:

We al have several documents. Some you can store by type (doc in /doc, xls
in /xls) some by subject (work in /work, car in /car). For some reasons,
i'm looking for a solution, whereby i can put every file into his own
type-dir (so, all doc's are going to /doc, al xls are going to /xls), but
find the files back trough labels (or tags, or ...).

I know, you can add a "subject"column in the explorer, but that's a little
much work to do that with each file. So, i'm looking for a sort of
explorer
replacement that can filter by type and subject (at least). You get
something like this in the tree:
+ by type
| - /docs
| - /xls
+ by subject
| - /car
| - /work
etc

foobar1.doc and foobar2.doc are stored in /docs, but foobar1 is labeled as
car and foobar2 as work. foobar3.xls is in /xls and labeled as car.
Clicking on the different node's will result in something like:

+ by type
| - /docs [foobar1.doc and foobar2.doc]
| - /xls [foobar3.xls]
+ by subject
| - /car [foobar1.doc and foobar3.xls
| - /work [foobar2.doc]
etc

That is some requirement, although I am sure that one of the peeps here will
come up with a complete freeware solution
Here is my (partial) solution to consider.

eXtreme Advanced File Manager
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/link

This is a *very* small app along the lines of the old xtreegold file
manager, although a mouse will work if required.
What it will do is sort files by name or type using the usual wildcards as a
template. *.doc - all doc files , X*.doc - all doc files beginning with X.
It will also accept a template with more than one filter so *.doc,*.xls
shows all .doc and .xls files
There is a global option to show all the files filtered or otherwise on any
one drive.

Where this might help you is that you can have more than one occurrence of
extreme running at any one time, each with its own filter.
So you might have
extreme1 - global showing all .docs and .xls
extreme2 - looking at ../cars folder filtered for .xls
extreme3 - looking at ../work folder filtered for .docs

Each will be in its own window.

O, and it has to be working AFTER a reinstall of windows.

extreme is *almost* no install, it can be copied between machines and works
but prefers to have its folder included in the path. Write a small batch
file to do this and everything works fine.