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« Reply #150 on: March 02, 2009, 10:32:55 PM » |
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BTW, I thought I'd mention that I am also using WhereIsIt? - or actually I am severely underusing it! I've created a catalog of each of my HDD's and - well, that's about it. I update them regularly and save them. Duh! Other than that I don't have any idea what to do with this software. I ended up getting Collectorz.com apps for my DVDs, CDs, and Books, and SoftCAT for my software inventory. So that leaves WhereIsIt? as the perennial bridesmaid, but never a bride. Documentation is disappointingly thin and the application itself is somewhat less than intuitive.
If anyone has any tips on decent uses for WhereIsIt? I'd love to hear them. Otherwise it's getting booted.
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« Reply #151 on: March 03, 2009, 05:48:03 AM » |
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It´s weird to see a whereisit user not being a big fan of it using it only for HD-tracking. The most important sense is to use it for filesearches on external data media, not only for locals.
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« Reply #152 on: March 03, 2009, 03:51:58 PM » |
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It´s weird to see a whereisit user not being a big fan of it using it only for HD-tracking. The most important sense is to use it for filesearches on external data media, not only for locals.
I guess - but doesn't Locate32 and/or Everything search those just as fast, if not faster? Or does WhereIsIt? also index the contents? If so, then there's a feature I was not aware of. Thanks! Jim |
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« Reply #153 on: March 03, 2009, 10:29:26 PM » |
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The main value of WhereIsIt?, in my opinion, is that it saves a list of all of the contents of you media in one searchable location. So, you don't have to have the CD/DVD in a drive to review its contents - indeed, you can have 200 CD's and DVD's indexed and available fron one file. It's always worked flawlessly for me in this capacity.
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« Reply #154 on: March 04, 2009, 01:57:28 AM » |
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The main value of WhereIsIt?, in my opinion, is that it saves a list of all of the contents of you media in one searchable location. So, you don't have to have the CD/DVD in a drive to review its contents - indeed, you can have 200 CD's and DVD's indexed and available fron one file. It's always worked flawlessly for me in this capacity.
You mean by inserting the disks into the drive and letting WhereIsIt? read them, correct? That's cool but I already have all that catalogged in Movie and Music Collector. Jim |
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« Reply #155 on: March 04, 2009, 05:48:00 AM » |
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Data CDs/DVDs also?
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« Reply #156 on: March 04, 2009, 01:46:14 PM » |
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Yeah, sorry - I wasn't clear: I did actually mean data cds and dvds. That is, the contenst of them  |
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« Reply #157 on: March 04, 2009, 02:40:35 PM » |
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) Yeah, sorry - I wasn't clear: I did actually mean data cds and dvds. That is, the contenst of them oh to be the contestest of the DVD's (with apologies to all  I'll excuse this post by saying - look at the next one... |
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« Reply #158 on: March 04, 2009, 02:43:27 PM » |
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see Post #2 for an update consisting of these items below (either new items or software updated since April of 2007) with thanks to Crush who gave me the list in excel form and Crono who helped m again with converting it to the cursed BBCode (guess who's been buried in [/td][td] and [/td][/tr] for the last couple of hours ... - [edit] this is the rough draft - see Post #2 as linked to above for more accurate version - I used commas as seperators which caused a bit of chaos with pricing column which was done using european style 29,95 - tears rest of hair out, lol [/edit] - [edit] this is the rough version - see Post #2 as linked to above - I used commas as seperators which caused a bit of chaos with pricing column which was done using european style 29,95 - tears rest of hair out, lol [/edit] |
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« Reply #159 on: March 04, 2009, 03:08:02 PM » |
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) Yeah, sorry - I wasn't clear: I did actually mean data cds and dvds. That is, the contenst of them oh to be the contestest of the DVD's (with apologies to all I'll excuse this post by saying - look at the next one... I meant to do that... that's obviously why I put a smiley face at the end of it. No other explanation worth looking at, is there? Well, IS there? No. I thought not. Moving along...  |
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« Reply #160 on: March 05, 2009, 01:07:26 AM » |
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OK - No, I don't have any data CD/DVD's in the Collectorz.com software. Then again, other than CD's with software installation files I don't really have many. I stopped backing up to DVD's when my data files became too large to fit on them. I use external drives instead.
Like I said, I do use it to keep all my HDD's catalogged and I update those weekly. But as I said also, I can't help but to feel like I am so underusing the application. It appears - at least from the documentation that does come with it - that it is mostly designed to catalog media disks.
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« Reply #161 on: March 05, 2009, 07:36:50 AM » |
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Yeah, your experience is similar to mine, Jim - I back up everything to external HDs now: OS and software instals to disc images and documents and software installers to folders. However, I *did* backup everything to CD-R for about 10 years, so have about 300 discs lying around. I was never able to cram all the contents onto the disc label with a Sharpie, so bought WhereIsIt? to catalogue what I had and where.
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« Reply #162 on: March 08, 2009, 10:58:34 AM » |
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This list was compiled by Crush. Updated using a version from 2009-02-14Crono wrote a batch file that made it possible to convert it from a spreadsheet to this: Okay, just to confirm I've finalised the updating of the list combining a list from Crush (2009-02-14) with the current list (which was also based on an older list from Crush) added a few more new ones and updated a few more old ones  I made some big mistakes along the way so if you see any wrong urls please let me know! a1cataloger V1.1 AVCataloger V3.9.2 AWS Docket V3.0 BetaSys Harddisk Cataloging V0.1 Browsy 4.0e Camel Disc Catalog V2.2.1 CatalogShaman Catalogue of Disks V2.00 CDCollector CDDuplibase_145pr CDLysee V1.3 CDScan 1.2b D2 disc cataloger Echo V1.0 Find my Discs Gentibus V1.48 Inforce V4.5 JBCat v.2.0.0.11 Katalogisierer V2.5 LiteCD V0.13 (V.0.2.0 beta is available) Lucene MegaDisc1.15 OrganizaTe! Primitive Disk Indexer V1.14 rooter V1.0.1 Search Backups V2 Si Cataloguer V3.0 Software Catalog V2.2.1.1 SpinOrg StopKa V1.3 Virtual Volumes View V0.9 ZipCat Pro V3.3d ДистриБаза 0a (Distribase) |
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« Reply #163 on: March 08, 2009, 11:27:25 AM » |
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Yeah, your experience is similar to mine, Jim - I back up everything to external HDs now: OS and software instals to disc images and documents and software installers to folders. However, I *did* backup everything to CD-R for about 10 years, so have about 300 discs lying around. I was never able to cram all the contents onto the disc label with a Sharpie, so bought WhereIsIt? to catalogue what I had and where.
Just for the heck of it I catalogged my CD's with WhereIsIt?. I already have them in Music Collector but I wanted to see WhereIsIt do something other than just catalog my HDD's (Boring!). It did a nice job with my CD's. No cover art or anything; just the contents, which is all you really need. Jim |
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« Reply #164 on: March 12, 2009, 06:20:02 AM » |
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EDIT/ it's actually 60% off WinCatalog™ Light and Standard Comparison TableI have WinCatalog 2008 from a previous bits offer (which I've never installed ) they dont have any upgrade info at their site  so I mailed them EDIT#2/ I got a very prompt, polite, and helpful mail from them telling me that there's no upgrade price I'm one happy customer (better go install it next lol) AND just added app name it didnt really show in original quote above |
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« Reply #165 on: June 14, 2009, 06:33:29 AM » |
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Camel Disc Catalog v.2.2.2 released today. Full changelog: http://www.cameldisc.com/history.htmlFor me best new feature is several images per file support. So I can assign poster and several screenshots for every film in collection. They also added rescan option and video file preview, so it become useful not only for CD\DVD but also for HDD cataloging. |
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« Reply #166 on: June 15, 2009, 12:13:10 AM » |
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corrected website address anyone using this one? i won this program in a DC giveaway but for a long time it seemed that the software had become abandonware so i had to switch to another cataloguer. more details here: CD Bank Cataloguer abandoned?thats just sad:( i guess the question is whether any of these other catalog programs can import the cdbank database. and how open are the other programs database/export/import functions. it would suck to be locked into another programs database when that software becomes abandonware as well. sometimes even open source is abandoned. perhaps thats an issue with this area of software, no standard format for a database. |
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« Reply #167 on: June 15, 2009, 01:46:03 PM » |
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CDC uses SQLite database format. It also has internal import format based on JSON, but as I know there are no converter from CD Bank...
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