Cold storage you rarely spin up, still fully searchable.
Archive drives go in a drawer and out of mind. GetFerret remembers exactly what is on each one, so your archive stays searchable long after it is unplugged.
An archive is only worth keeping if you can find what is in it. But cold storage lives unplugged by definition, exactly when Spotlight goes blind. So the record of what you have ends up in a spreadsheet you forget to update, or in your head. GetFerret keeps that record for you, automatically.
A living index of every drive, plugged in or not.
Catalog a drive once and GetFerret keeps a local record of everything on it. The drive can go back in the drawer and stay searchable for good.
Search the whole archive offline
Every drive you have ever cataloged answers a single search, even the ones that are unplugged. No more spinning up disk after disk to check.
Stable drive identity
GetFerret recognizes a drive by its true identity, so a rename, a remount, even a reformat and reload does not break its place in the catalog. The Warren stays coherent for years.
Know which drawer it is in
Note where each drive physically lives, and a search result tells you: on Archive 04, top desk drawer. Finding the file and finding the drive become the same step.
Verified backups of the archive
Back up an archive drive to another, 1 to 1, every file confirmed byte for byte, with only changed files copied on later runs. Redundancy you can actually trust.
Group across drives with Nests, tag by collection.
Nests are virtual collections that sit above your folders, so you can gather related material from many drives into one place without moving a byte. Tag by collection, project or year; save the views you return to as Smart Collections; and when you need a clean hand-off, export a Nest as a folder or zip. And if a drive ever fails, the catalog is still your complete record of what was on it.
Prove the archive is still intact, without opening a file.
Ferret keeps a known-good fingerprint of everything it catalogs and re-checks over time, so silent corruption gets caught early instead of years later. One plain-language health card tells you how many verified copies exist and which items live in only one place.
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Keep your archive searchable, forever.
Download GetFerret and start finding files across every drive you own, even the ones sitting unplugged in a drawer. Free 14-day trial, then $49 once.