Zei

Zei is an open-source Windows toolkit that unifies:

• Instant file search (Everything-style MFT/USN indexing)
• Disk space analysis (WizTree-style tree + treemap)
• Archive management (WinRAR-like UX — ZIP/7z/tar create; RAR extract)

Built with Rust + Tauri 2 + React.

RAR creation is not supported (proprietary format). Zei creates ZIP, 7z, and tar.* archives and can extract RAR when bsdtar/libarchive is available.

Features

• Shared NTFS-oriented index used by search and disk map
• Query language: *.mp4, path:, size:>1gb, dm:last7days, ext:, drive:, regex:, bookmarks (#videos)
• Treemap, top files, extension breakdown, stale-file view
• Cleanup presets, duplicate finder (xxh3), growth diff
• Archive queue with zip-slip protection
• Cross-module workflows (search → disk map → compress)
• Command palette (Ctrl+K), tray-friendly desktop app, CLI
• EN / TR UI

Quick start

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.75+
• Node.js 20+
• Windows 10/11 (MFT fast path)

# CLI / libraries
cargo build -p zei-cli --release

# Desktop UI
cd ui && npm install && cd ..
cargo tauri dev
# or: npm run tauri --prefix src-tauri   (if tauri-cli installed)

CLI examples

zei scan D:\Projects --save
zei index status
zei search "*.rs size:>1mb" --json
zei compress .\folder -o out.zip --format zip
zei volumes

Workspace layout

crates/
  zei-index/     MFT/walk index, snapshot, excludes, volumes
  zei-search/    Query language + search engine
  zei-disk/      Aggregation, treemap, export
  zei-archive/   Compress/extract + job queue
  zei-cleanup/   Cleanup, duplicates, growth
  zei-core/      App facade + cross-module selection
  zei-service/   Elevated helper
  zei-cli/       `zei` binary
src-tauri/       Desktop shell
ui/              React frontend
docs/            Architecture notes

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.