Looking for an app to display contents of unmounted volumes?

Question

Posting here in SL because that's the OS I'm using on this computer.  MacPro 1,1. OS 10.6.8, 10 gig.
I'm doing a major backup of my personal media RAIDset...about 8 TB of home videos, movies, and stuff I want to keep forever.
Ultimately, the backup drives will be taken over to a video house and dumped to LTO tape. Each tape comfortably holds about 1.75 TB, so I'm splitting the 8TB from the RAID across 5 2TB drives.
Here's the problem...I can't mount all 5 backup drives at once, and so I'd like to find some sort of app which can take a snapshot of the volume catalog..basically, I'd like to have the finder window for each volume available, even when the drive isn't mounted.  This way, I could see what files I've copied to what drive, without having to mount and unmount drives constantly, just to check what's on each.
Anything like this around?  The closest I can get currently is a utility called WhatSize, which creates a column view of a volume, which I can then screen grab. However, I'd like something that behaves like a folder window, with the files and folders available interactively (eg, I can click on a disclosure triangle and see the files/folders within).

Answer 1

Put the text into the AppleScript variable the_text, create a folder named destfolder on the desktop, and run the following:
set target_folder_depth to 0
tell application "Finder"
set target_folder to folder "destfolder" of desktop
repeat with this_paragraph from 2 to (count paragraphs of the_text)
set this_folder_depth to 0
set paragraph_text to paragraph this_paragraph of the_text
repeat
if item 1 of paragraph_text is tab then
set this_folder_depth to this_folder_depth + 1
set paragraph_text to items 2 thru -1 of paragraph_text as string
else
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if this_folder_depth < target_folder_depth then
repeat (target_folder_depth - this_folder_depth) times
set target_folder to parent of target_folder
end repeat
set target_folder_depth to this_folder_depth
end if
if paragraph_text ends with ":" then
set target_folder to (make new folder at target_folder with properties {name:items 1 thru -2 of paragraph_text as string})
set target_folder_depth to this_folder_depth + 1
else
make new file at target_folder with properties {name:paragraph_text}
end if
end repeat
end tell
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