Made up a random app that uses c# to index the files on a dvd/cd/drive and let you search them via MySQL. Useful more for dvd/cd “mosh-pit” backups where there’s no organization whatsoever.
Problem is, I’ve no idea how exactly to -publish- an app like this, nor do I have a clue how to make it so you can specify certain bits of information so it’ll work on anything but a default MySQL install that comes with XAMPP.
Good news? Works for finding stuff. Irritates me a bit when I searched the discs 3 times for where my emergency backup of System Shock 2 was, and I could’ve just spent the 60 minutes to get the app working for indexing (it can’t search, I was using XAMPP’s install of PHPMyAdmin to search it for now), and discovered it’s on Backup 3, under the folder “Plastic Hammer.” Why it’s under that folder, no idea.
Next project? Time machine so I can go back and ask myself -why- it’s in the Plastic Hammer folder.