Driveshelf reads each drive once and remembers everything on it. After that you can search your whole shelf — every SSD, every archive, every NAS share — without hunting for a cable. Plug in only the one that actually has the file.
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Four steps, and only the first one needs the drive in your hand.
Connected drives appear under “Ready to Index”. One click each. A footage drive of 1,600 files and 1.37 TB takes under four seconds.
Put the drive back on the shelf. Its contents stay in the catalogue, fully searchable, for as long as you like.
Names and folder paths across every drive at once. Filter by type, size or client tag. Sort by name, size or date.
Driveshelf tells you which drive holds the file. Plug that one in and Reveal in Finder takes you straight to it.
Everything below is in the app today.
Full-text search of file names and folder paths across every indexed drive, connected or not. Matches any part of a word, so 1638 finds P1638093.MOV and Ceremony finds everything filed under a Ceremony folder.
Click a drive to walk its folders — top-level projects first, drill in from there, breadcrumb back. It works with the drive unplugged, because the tree comes from the index rather than the disk.
Total, used and free for every drive, with a fill bar that turns amber then red. Sort the sidebar by free space to find the drive with room for the next job.
See what's actually taking the space — video, images, audio, documents, editing projects, archives — per drive or across the whole library.
Tag drives by client or project, rename them to something you'll recognise, and give each one a colour it wears everywhere. Essential when two drives ship with the same name from the factory.
Find files sitting on more than one drive under the same name and exact size, with the space held in the extra copies totted up.
BRAW, R3D, MXF, ProRes, 32-bit float WAV, .prproj, .drp, .aep and Final Cut libraries. A .fcpbundle is catalogued as one item with the total size of everything inside it.
CSV of any search or of your whole drive list with capacity, usage and percent full. Export the entire library to a file and import it on another Mac.
Index a NAS share, or just one project folder on it. Handy when a share is far too large to walk in full.
Driveshelf opens your drives to list what's on them and nothing else. It never moves, renames, changes or deletes a file. “Forget This Drive” removes Driveshelf's records of a drive — it does not touch the drive.
No account, no cloud, no telemetry. The app's only network request is a check for updates on weareoneapps.com, which sends nothing about your drives. The catalogue is one SQLite file in your Library folder.
No licence key, no nag screens, no paid tier waiting behind a feature.
Indexing can be cancelled mid-scan and leaves nothing half-written.
No — that's the entire point. Index a drive once and it stays searchable with the drive in a drawer. A green dot means connected, grey means away but still searchable. You only need it connected to open a file or to re-index after the contents change.
It scales with how many files there are, not how many terabytes. A footage drive with 1,648 files and 1.37 TB indexes in under four seconds. A network share over SMB is far slower, because listing folders across a network is the bottleneck — you can index one folder of it instead, or press Stop at any point.
Yes — signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple, with the ticket stapled to the download. It opens like any other app: no security warnings, no trip through System Settings, and it verifies even if you're offline.
Nothing breaks. Drives are tracked by their volume UUID, not their name, so renaming one in Finder or in Driveshelf never orphans its index. Network shares are the exception — those are identified by where they mount.
No. An archive is catalogued as one file, and a Final Cut library as one item with the combined size of its contents. Footage inside a .zip isn't searchable by clip name.
Yes. File ▸ Export Library writes the whole thing — drives, indexes, tags and notes — to a single file, and Import Library merges it in on the other machine.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon.
Built for one shelf of drives in particular. Driveshelf came out of a wedding-film archive: a stack of SSDs, one folder per wedding, and no memory of which drive held which couple. If your library looks like that, it will feel obvious. If it doesn't, it may not fit.
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No spam, no drip campaign. Just a note when something ships.
No licence, no trial, no feature held back. Driveshelf was built to solve one problem on one shelf of drives, and it's yours for nothing. If it's saved you digging through a stack of SSDs, there's a tip jar — and no hard feelings if you'd rather not.