I am looking for a program that will index all my files. When I say all I mean mp3's, pdf's, txt, pictures, etc. Maybe some kind of cross reference search as well. Not sure if I am explaining what I want correctly. I was thinking of something like Beagle use to be but I would want to manually certain folders, not all, scan rather then be forced with an autoscan that scans everything.

I have many files now (Documents, Audio, Images=50,000+) that it is hard to know what I have just by looking through them. It would take forever to do it that way. So basically they are just taking up space and sitting there.

Any ideas?

Edit: I am using three programs now. I would like to find one that does it all. I am using Gnome Referencer, Shotwell and JaJuk.

Im not sure if I am understanding you exactly.

But mlocate sounds like it will do what you want.

Before searching it pays to update the database first.
And then search with
There's a bunch of options for both that you can configure it to suit your needs. (man updatedb, man locate)

I am not sure what I am looking for either, lol.

I was hoping for something that scanned all files in specified folder and just listed them according to the type of file they are, example all .mp3's, all .pdf's, all .jpg's, etc and then listed them in a tree or folders. Something that would keep this info for easy and quick access, so I didn't have to rescan each time.

It doesn't need to play mp3's, view pdf's, edit images, etc. Something to just list them.

find will do it for you
You could output it to a file
To view a page at a time
It doesn't store it anywhere, but it is fast enough that it doesn't have to.

Thanks for that info. But I was looking more for something with a GUI and would scan all sub-folders as well. This outputs it to a text file but that is it. I have many folders and 50,000 files to scan. I need something that has a little more to it.

However those commands will prove useful with some other things I plan on doing.

Apparently there is a "google desktop" which may do what you are looking for.
http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/finding-files-in-linux/

Never used it, so i cant really comment, but might be of some use to you.

Thanks for the info. But it looks like they got rid of it.

http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/20...op-update.html

Maybe they will give the code to the open source community. Or someone else will make an alternative. Seems like these places are trying to force everyone to the cloud. I refuse to go there. I like my feet on the ground and my files on MY computer, lol.

Edit: I looked for a Google desktop alternative. I found Beagle. But looks like that is discontinued as well. http://beagle-project.org/

Looks like I might just be out of luck. Not a complete loss. I do have Gnome Referencer, Shotwall and JaJuk. It is not all together like I want but at least it covers the files I want. Thanks for your help and suggestions fukawi1

Found what I want. Hope it works out well, seems to so far.

Data Crow

http://www.datacrow.net/download.html