Design principle
Do expensive work once, store the durable result compactly, and keep the interactive path cheap.
Project direction
Build a storage shell around a serious data engine.
Harddisk.Tools is presented here as a focused engineering product: fast local indexing, compact storage models, offline awareness and an interface that can scale past ordinary Explorer workflows.
Product principle
Expose advanced storage metadata without making normal file navigation feel like a forensic workstation.
Architecture principle
Keep provider and persistence details behind a data-layer boundary so the UI can evolve independently.
Performance principle
Avoid polling, N+1 reads, repeated path strings and unnecessary allocations in hot request/query paths.
Roadmap
Concept milestones.
Consolidate runtime
Data layer boundary, async named pipes, snapshot reloads and clean request routing.
Local MFT engine
Compact path identities, incremental updates and scalable local persistence.
Query + dedup
Composable predicates, hash catalog, candidate workflows and virtual folders.
Explorer-class shell
High-density UI, offline disks, saved views and storage-specific actions.
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Change a WebPage route or a PageElement row, reload the snapshot, and the website changes without recompiling the content.
DB row navigation test:
Home row
Docs row