# Drive catalog | ByteSweep Docs

> Search your external drives even when they are unplugged, with the ByteSweep drive catalog.

Canonical: https://bytesweep.app/docs/files/drives.html
Last updated: 2026-11-02

## Drive catalog

Find a file on any drive, even one sitting in a drawer.

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### On this page

- Remember a drive
- Move a catalog

### Remember a drive

On Mac

1. Plug in the drive.
2. Open **Find a file on any drive**.
3. Press **Remember this drive's files**.

On Windows and Linux

1. Plug in the drive.
2. Open **Find a file on any drive**, then**Your drives**.
3. Remember its files.

The catalog stores names, folders, sizes and dates. It doesn't keep the files.

On Mac

### Move a catalog

**Export All Drives…**and**Import Drives…**move it to another Mac.**Export File List (CSV)…**makes a list.**Forget this drive…** removes it.

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Updated 2026-11-02. Something wrong here? Write to [support@bytesweep.app](mailto:support@bytesweep.app).