FileIndexer

Description

Program to read a chosen directory and output the names of the files within it (along with their respective times of creation, last access, and last modified) to a CSV file in the directory.

Why would I want to use this?

The initial purpose of this program is to help keep track of any new additions into a folder. By using this program along with a spreadsheet viewer, such as Excel, you will be able to sort by newest to oldest. However, the program could by modified to list multiple attributes of each file in a directory for another use.

Requirements

Java 8+, as it uses the new time classes

How to Use

Download the FileIndexer.jar in the root folder (or compile the classes in the /bin/ folder into a jar file with FileIndexer as the main class) to somewhere on your computer. After that, run it through the command prompt with java -jar FileIndexer.jar, and follow the on-screen prompts.

Sample

Here is the sample output for the directory of this Eclipse project.

Begin execution of FileIndexer v1.0
Choose the root directory to analyze.
Qt: Untested Windows version 10.0 detected!	--> [This is a message related to the FileChooser class. However, it shouldn't have any impact on the program.]
The media directory is now C:\Users\Castor\Documents\workspace\FileIndexer
Begin analysis of [C:\Users\Castor\Documents\workspace\FileIndexer\]
 Analyzing [\.git\]
  Analyzing [\.git\hooks\]
  Analyzing [\.git\info\]
  Analyzing [\.git\logs\]
   Analyzing [\.git\logs\refs\]
    Analyzing [\.git\logs\refs\heads\]
  Analyzing [\.git\objects\]
   Analyzing [\.git\objects\4e\]
   Analyzing [\.git\objects\99\]
   Analyzing [\.git\objects\bd\]
   Analyzing [\.git\objects\cd\]
   Analyzing [\.git\objects\info\]
   Analyzing [\.git\objects\pack\]
  Analyzing [\.git\refs\]
   Analyzing [\.git\refs\heads\]
   Analyzing [\.git\refs\tags\]
 Analyzing [\.settings\]
 Analyzing [\bin\]
 Analyzing [\src\]
Finished analysis of [C:\Users\Castor\Documents\workspace\FileIndexer\]
Output saved to [C:\Users\Castor\Documents\workspace\FileIndexer\_list.2016-07-03.csv]
Done.

Also within this repo is the sample CSV file that is a result of this analysis.

Credits/Sources

This program uses a modified and stripped-down version of bookClasses, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 US License, to handle choosing a directory.

Licensing

The source code created by me (and not mentioned in the Credits/Sources section) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. By using this code, you agree to the terms stated in the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Other Notes

This program is currently set to output times by GMT -5. You can change this by changing the "-5" after the timeOffset variable in FileIndexer.