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Spencer was born out of a need to index a filestore - which was continually used by a team of people to
store miscellaneous documents, files and other items - which had become somewhat unruly in terms of
organisation and storage. A commonly recurring theme was that although someone knew that a certain file was present, nobody knew exactly where it was. I started off by attempting to implement some widely used groupware/content management systems to control the inflow of files to the repository but with the primary method of filestore access being via SMB mapped drives and there being well in excess of 300,000 files in the store, a migration away from this was not only impractical but would prove such an obstacle to quick and convenient file access that it would defeat its own object. Indexing the existing store without removing the SMB access to the share proved to be the only solution but there was very little success to be had when searching for the appropriate toolset. Existing tools were not sufficient in that they precluded access via SMB shares, did not have the capacity to quickly and effectiviely deal with the number of files in the store or could not be adapted for reasonable workgroup/team scale access. So I wrote my own and here it is! I won't go in to how it works here, the links to the left will tell you that. Just dive in and use it! |
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