Why did I create this function?
I have built my own PVR, recording freeview directly to my hard drive. I use digiguide to schedule my recordings and two Hauppauge digital receivers to record the programs to my hard disk. To get the two talking to each other I use a clever piece of software called DTVRecord. This has the added advantage of capturing the TV program details (like episode number and brief overview of the program) to the NTFS file properties. But viewing these properties under explorer can be tedious as you can only see the first 79 characters, as can be seen below:
I have therefore created a utility to capture all this information and output it to an html file in such a way that I can easily navigate my files and see all the details. Please look at the example, please note that the links to the folders and files will not work as they are safely on my home PC.
There is also the added annoyance that when these files are backed up to DVD or tape that the NTFS metadata is lost! So my utility also outputs the information to csv which I use for cataloguing my back ups.
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