Archive System

Archive System is a disk cataloging utility that facilitates a user-friendly environment for creating multipurpose collections with files and folders. It offers support for password protection and an advanced search function for your databases. No installation is necessary.

Its interface consists of a large window with a clean and intuitive structure, where you can get started by creating a new database by indicating a file name and saving directory.

In the following step, you can fill it with any folders. The size of the database file remains very small, regardless of the size of added objects, so you shouldn't worry about it. Archive System only uses this database as a map for the containing files and directories; the items are not actually copied there.

A few properties can be set when adding new items to the database. For instance, you can specify the archive's name and description, date of creation and attributes (burnt, deleted, lost, rented), along with audio and video tags (wherever this is possible): artists, album, title, duration, year, sample rate, bit rate, channels, format description, genres, comment, or dimensions.

It's possible to open or copy the original folder's location in the file explorer, find an item by name or description, or resort to an advanced search function with filters for the name (e.g. contains a specific phrase or words), size and date range (date of creation and last modification), attributes (e.g. watched, compressed, encrypted, hidden), and description.

You can restrict other users' access to Archive System by setting a password, optimize the database file size, as well as ask the tool to show full addresses in the results.

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests and the application remained light on system resources consumption throughout its runtime. Although it doesn't come equipped with more comprehensive options and customization preferences, Archive System offers a simple solution for quickly cataloging and browsing files and folders, which can be easy to use by anyone.