more efficient filesort

purpose and history

More Efficient Filesort is a small application that sorts and organizes a directory filled with files into "buckets" of a pre-determined size. For example, if you have a directory with 10,000 MP3s, let's say 75GB worth, and you want to burn them to CDs of size 700MB, you would use More Efficient Filesort to pack the data into burn-ready directories with the best space-usage efficiency as possible [by the simple algorithm]. It makes sorting files into burnable directories very easy.

The application was originally conceived as a perl script that consumed a source directory, a target directory size, and worked some magic. Since then (2001), like most utility perl scripts, it has evolved to include a number of fun features as well as a GUI.

downloading the software

Please contact me for a copy of the beta release of the software. For the time being it's closed-source, available as a single standalone .EXE for Windows only. It's a lot easier to fix bugs when I don't need to worry about the version of the interpreter and DLLs you run and I can focus on the functional fixes versus environmental differences.