File Browser

Ok, I need some help here. I’m not a programmer, well, not an Application programer. However, I need a problem solved programmatically. I want a new interface for browsing files. Not all files mind you, but files that I consider to be “Archived.” I even want this program to go GET the files that should be archived. I want this program to back itself up to .Mac, Time Machine, and ftp. I want this programs interface… To LOOK like a filing cabinet.

I’m thinking 36 drawers A-Z and 0-9. and I want it to present things like a file cabinet. I know this isn’t conventional. I know this isn’t great UI Design. However, I want all my documents that are more than 2 years old archived. I don’t want them on DVD, because that would not allow for easy retrieval if I did need one. I want the archive to understand that it’s different than my “active” files and because of that, shouldn’t look like my other files. I would need to be able to right click on a file and send it to the “Archive.”

Oh, and if someone wanted to give it the ability to catalog the contents and store them on an Encrypted Disk Image, that would be pretty cool as well. Oh, and one other thing. I would really like to be able to make subfolders inside the folders. For example, unless things change around here drastically, I’m going to be on Suddenlink (Cox) Internet for a long time. I have been on them for years now as it is. I would like to be able to have a divider in the Archive that would say Suddenlink (Cox), then folders for each year 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, etc. Then, on each folder I would like to be able to have a checklist of some sort that would allow me to check off and make sure that I have all the statements for that year. I don’t know, just overly OCD I suppose, but hey, if Martin Luther King can have a dream, then so can I.