I once made such a tool for myself, and now I realize that I need it again. Perhaps someone knows something ready-made. You select a folder, the system scans all the files there, with their sizes and dates. It creates a little archive that has everything except the contents. Optionally: previews are built for images, PDFs, and office files. The archive is sent to another person, the preview is uploaded somewhere into the cloud. That person selects with checkboxes what they need, if necessary, can see the preview, and with one click creates a file with a list of what they chose, sends the file back. This file is executed on the archive, and the output is a small archive only with the selected files, sent to the requester. I wrote something like this back in the 2000s in Delphi 🙂 and about twice a year I want it again. For example, I have a library of high-quality photos on disks, and I don’t want to unload these terabytes into the cloud and pay for that. I only upload the previews, but how can I give someone a tool where they can click through a hundred photos and make an “order”? Or I have a library of fb2/epub books (true indeed), it has been lying on disks for about five years now. Obviously, I don’t want to unload it anywhere, but I want to have all these folders handy and only upload what’s needed. Or music. Or movies.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 