Index the pile
Point it at a mounted volume. It stores the file map locally and resumes scans instead of starting over like a dramatic idiot.
Local-first archive archaeology
Old disks. Fewer guesses. One cleaner plan.
The monique CLI indexes archival volumes, finds duplicates across the pile, and builds a deduplicated destination plan. It is for the moment where Finder search has given up and gone to make coffee.
What it does
Turns archive mess into a database you can query.
Scan each mounted volume once. Mostly Unique records paths, sizes, types, filesystem timestamps, branches, directories, and scan errors. Then the questions get smaller.
Find the repeats
Duplicates use size plus filesystem mtime, then require different directories. DVD chapter files can sit down.
Build the destination
Create a copy plan, dry-run it, inspect the damage, then build the disk when the plan stops smelling weird.
Duplicate detection
The same file, seen through different archive scars.
Mostly Unique groups files by stable filesystem signals. It cares about duplicates crossing directories, not accidental repeats inside one DVD structure.
6 volumes
289k files
1 copy plan
Destination planning
Dry-run first. Move later. Sleep slightly better.
The plan commands keep decision-making separate from copying. You can inspect what would happen before the drives start doing expensive little noises.
Index each source volume.
Persist the destination rules.
Read the plan before touching files.
Build the destination when it makes sense.
Commands
The useful surface area is small.
No account. No cloud. No dashboard pretending to be insight. Just the commands that make old disks less haunted.
./monique scan /Volumes/LIMA-2 --fresh -v./monique duplicates./monique websites --only-with-sql./monique plan:create /Volumes/DEST --photos./monique plan:dry-run 1./monique plan:build 1