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Know What's Actually on Your Drives, Without Opening Every Folder

The MediaVault Team · June 10, 2026 · 2 min read · No comments yet

An external drive at the center of an orbiting dashboard of bar charts, a heatmap grid, a pie chart, and folder icons.

Twenty years of shooting spread across a dozen drives raises questions that are hard to answer by browsing folders: which year did you actually shoot the most, which drive is quietly the biggest, which handful of files are eating the most space. MediaVault already has the answer, because scanning collected the data — it just has to show it to you.

A picture of the whole archive

Storage broken down by year, device, and file type; a GitHub-style activity heatmap of how much you shot and when; a largest-files finder for reclaiming space with intent instead of guessing; a missing-GPS report for the gaps in your location data; and a day-by-day growth history for every drive, recorded automatically on every scan.

Nothing new to compute

None of this requires a separate analysis step — it's built from the same metadata the catalog already captured while scanning, so opening the Analytics view doesn't trigger a new pass over the drive. It's a different lens on data MediaVault was going to have anyway.

Instead of guessing which drive to clean up first or when you actually took the most photos, it's a straight answer, immediately, from an archive you've already cataloged.

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