I’m looking for a way of searching through hard drive contents without needing to connect them. Does something exist to automatically keep an updated list of what was in a hard disk the last time I attached it?
An important part is the interface: Ideally it would appear just like a file manager and show all the offline files on my online system without taking up any of the space. Like a database.
Do you want just an index (a list of file names) or the full content (the stuff thats inside the file)?
The full content without taking up any space is impossible.
An index would take up very little space, but I am not sure whether there is any ready made software for that available.