FileLister: Folder Inventory

Turn any folder into a searchable, sortable, exportable catalog of everything inside it. FileLister reads everything macOS knows about each file, puts it in a workable table, and exports it anywhere. Built for photographers cataloging shoots, video editors checking delivery specs, archivists generating manifests, sysadmins auditing storage, and anyone who needs a real inventory of what is on a disk. WHAT IT READS 88 fields per file. Name, size, size on disk, kind, extension, UTI, full and relative path, and created, modified, accessed and added dates. Photos: pixel dimensions, DPI, bit depth, ICC color profile, alpha channel, camera make and model, lens, ISO, aperture, focal length, flash, capture date, and GPS with a one-click Apple Maps link. Video: codec down to the variant (Apple ProRes 422 LT, ProRes 4444 XQ, H.264, HEVC, AV1, DNxHD), frame rate as a real fraction so 23.976 and 29.97 are never rounded, capture frame rate for slow motion, resolution, bit rate, bit depth, color primaries, transfer function, and an HDR flag for HLG and PQ. Keyframe (GOP) interval on demand. Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, bit depth, bit rate, duration, title, album, artist, genre, year, track. Documents: page count, authors, title, keywords, Finder tags, comments, copyright, and download source. Spotlight metadata with direct-extraction fallback, so it works on drives with indexing off. EXPORT Excel with embedded thumbnails. CSV with comma, semicolon or tab, so it opens correctly in any region. JSON flat or nested. PDF reports. HTML with sortable tables. Markdown. XML. Apple plist. Plain text trees. Files open cleanly in Numbers, Excel and Google Sheets. Right-click any folder in Finder and choose List with FileLister. Drag rows into Mail, Numbers or Notes - each gets the right format. Full Shortcuts support: scan folders and export reports from workflows, Focus modes or calendar events. DISK CATALOGS Scan an external drive, card or network share and FileLister keeps the listing. Unplug the drive and everything on it stays searchable, sortable and exportable, with all 88 fields intact. Search across every disk you have ever cataloged; FileLister tells you which one a file is on. CHECK DELIVERY SPECS Describe a correct file - codec, resolution, frame rate, audio, duration, DPI - and every file that does not match is flagged, offending fields in red. Show only the failing files, export the list with reasons, or right-click a known-good file to turn it into a spec. Broadcast and signage examples included. FIND THINGS Filter as you type and sort by any of the 88 columns. Create saved searches that update themselves. Photos from 2024 without GPS. PDFs over 50MB modified this month. Smart Collections live in the sidebar and refresh on every rescan. Search by content, not only by name. A private, on-device index built with Apple's Vision and Natural Language frameworks. Ask for photos with mountains or documents about taxes and it finds them. CHECK AND COMPARE MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 on demand. Generate a .sha256 sidecar, then verify the folder against it later to catch silent corruption. Find duplicates by size, confirm them by content hash before anything is deleted. Snapshot a folder and diff it against a later one. A visual fingerprint turns each folder into a poster-style image of its types, sizes and dates. External drives, network volumes and iCloud Drive all work. SPEED Scans 100,000 files in under a minute on Apple Silicon. The interface stays responsive, and you can filter and export while results stream in. FREE AND PRO Free: unlimited scanning, every field visible in the app, CSV export up to 500 rows, and unlimited plain text. Pro: every export format, disk catalogs, filter sets, checksums, duplicates, AI search and more. One purchase, no subscription. No data collection, no analytics, no network calls. Everything runs on your Mac. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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