Not too sure where the best forum is for this, so I'll put it in here.

What I want to achieve is a virtual directory listing of everything in on a hard drive that is browsable in a fairly good looking interface.

Currently we archive lots of projects on to hard drives and put them in storage, and from time to time we need to find things on them, so at the moment we have a filemaker database of the top level directory listing of each drive in a simple text box and then various other fields with information about what is on each drive.

So the step up from this seems to me to be a complete virtual directory listing of each drive, I'm not sure whether this is beyond filemaker or not, and it would probably be a lot easier just to have a big store of empty folders that have the names of every directory on each drive, but it wouldn't hold all the other information/comments we'd like to have about each drive.

Can anyone think of a way to achieve this with a script to read a directory listing and import it into a filemaker database? (the interface I can probably work out, using something like "Hierarchical Portals", the main problem is getting the directory structure into something i can work with)

Their is an xml utility in google aps http://code.google.com/p/xml-dir-listing/

That can be triggered from the command line and produces an xlm representation of an entire directory structure.

I use this and import the xml into fmp for a similar thing.

K