What Size is a really incredible application that I blogged about quite a while back for saving space on your Mac's hard drive, but I recently found a new use for the program that I wanted to share with you all!
What Size has various viewing options when you're looking at the contents of your drive(s). One of the views is called "Outline View," and it allows you to expand the folders on the drive to see what's in them. You can then print this view to PDF, giving you a searchable document you can keep on your Mac that shows the content of that hard drive. Each PDF is saved with a number in the name that corresponds with the number marked on the hard drive.
I've done this now with all of my onsite external drives, so now I have this great little scenario:
I'm looking for an engagement session from a year ago. I go to spotlight, type that client's last name in, and up pops the Backup Drive PDF document in which their name is found. I click on that document, and the PDF opens up and highlights the client's name in the document, allowing me to see that their engagement session is on that drive. I look at the document name to see what hard drive this session is on, and pull that hard drive to download the session to my computer.
Some of you may have some elaborate server system set up with terabytes of storage that you can access wirelessly, etc, but most photographers probably aren't so lucky. What Size once again steps in with a great solution!!!
