Syncdrome simplifies the organization and search of your digital files on specific hard drives.
As someone who tends to accumulate digital files in a disorganized manner, I felt the need to develop a tool that would simplify my digital life. Syncdrome was born out of my own experience as a self-proclaimed "digital Diogenes."
Developed by Alejandro Aranda, Syncdrome is a Tauri application with React in the frontend and Rust in the backend. This intuitive tool streamlines the search and organization of your files on specific hard drives. With a simple yet powerful interface, Syncdrome allows quick keyword searches and presents results organized by folders.
- Catalog your drives: index every file of a drive into a plain-text catalog you can search even when the drive is unplugged (optionally media files only).
- Search: keyword search across all catalogs, with results grouped by volume and folder, file-type filters, previews and a right-click context menu.
- Explorer: browse synchronized volumes like a file manager — connected drives as quick-access cards, live size/date metadata, per-folder item counts, quick filtering, and a preview panel for images, Markdown, text/code, PDF, video and audio.
- Bookmarks: favorite files with comments, stored in SQLite, with search, previews and full context-menu actions.
- File Name Cleaner: batch renaming with a cut pattern and substitution rules, live red/green diff of every name, per-rule match counters and conflict detection.
- Folder Sync: mirror a source folder into a destination with an operation log.
You can download the latest version of Syncdrome for Windows from the Releases section of the GitHub repository: an .msi installer (recommended) or a standalone .zip that runs without installation.
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Make sure you have Node.js installed on your machine.
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Clone this repository:
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Navigate to the project directory:
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Install the dependencies:
npm install
To compile and run the application, make sure you have Rust and Cargo installed:
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Install Rust (which includes Cargo) from https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
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In the src-tauri of the project, run:
cargo build
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Optionally, you can also compile and package the Tauri application with:
cargo tauri build
In the Settings section of the application menu, you can configure the working folder where the file catalog will be stored. It's an interesting idea to store the catalog in a cloud storage service, such as Dropbox or Google Drive, for easy access from any device.
Appearance and language apply instantly. File types can be created, renamed, given an icon and colour, or deleted, and each extension is a chip: click it to toggle whether it counts as a media file, or remove it with its cross.
The config.json file is now defined in config.rs and is installed in the .syncdrome folder within your home directory.
{
"folder": "C:\\myfolder",
"extensions": {
"document": {
"icon": "File",
"color": "black",
"extensions": ["doc", "docx", "xls", "xlsx", "ppt", "pptx", "txt", "odt", "ods", "odp"]
},
...
}
}To start using the search, you first need to create a catalog. Access the Sync option in the application menu.
A list of connected hard drives is displayed. Select the drive you want to synchronize and click the Sync button. The synchronized catalogs of disk volumes that are not currently connected to the computer are also shown. To remove them from the catalog, click the trash icon.
To search for a file, simply enter a keyword in the search field and press Enter or click the Search button. The search results are displayed in a dropdown list, showing disk volumes first, followed by folders and files that match the keyword.
Connected volumes are listed first (ordered by drive letter). Click a result to open its preview panel, double-click to open the file with the system's default program, or right-click for the context menu (preview, open, show in folder, bookmark, copy name/path).
In the Explorer section you can browse the synchronized volumes like a file manager. Connected drives appear as quick-access cards; disconnected volumes can still be browsed from their catalog. The list shows type, size and modified date (live data on connected drives) plus per-folder item counts, with a quick filter by name or extension. Selecting a file opens the preview panel, which renders images, Markdown, text/code, PDF, video and audio, along with metadata, the file's bookmark and open/show-in-folder actions.
In the Bookmarks section, favorite files are grouped by volume with their comments. You can search by name or description, add bookmarks via a file dialog or drag-and-drop, and preview, open, edit, delete or copy from each row or its context menu.
Favorites are stored in an SQLite database, in the working folder, in the db.sqlite file.
The File Name Cleaner batch-renames the files of a folder using a recipe: a cut pattern (regex, or literal text if it does not compile) that removes everything from its first match to the end, plus ordered find→replace substitution rules with per-rule colors and live match counters. Every file shows a real diff (deletions struck in red, additions in green) computed live, conflicting names are excluded automatically, and any new name can still be edited manually. Extensions are never touched; duplicate spaces collapse and dangling separators are trimmed.
Folder Sync mirrors a source folder into a destination folder: matching files are kept, missing ones are added, and files not present in the source are removed, with a live log of every operation.
- The application uses the Tauri framework, which allows the use of Rust in the backend and React in the frontend.
- The code searches through all text files (
*.txt) in the specified directory and groups the results by folder. - Each result includes information such as line number, clean file name, type (file or folder), file name, and folder path.
For version bumping, you can use the following npm scripts:
npm run version:bump # patch: 2.0.2 -> 2.0.3
npm run version:bump -- minor # minor: 2.0.2 -> 2.1.0
npm run version:bump -- major # major: 2.0.2 -> 3.0.0
npm run version:bump -- 4.1.0 # especific: 2.0.2 -> 4.1.0This project is under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.
You can access the Syncdrome repository on GitHub.
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