I’m currently testing disk catalog software programs as you might have guessed already. Cathy is the second that I’m going to write a review about, the first disk catalog software was Visual CD. Cathy uses a different approach than Visual CD; It’s a portable and an ultra-fast disk catalog software which does not have all the features of Visual CD.
Cathy has a size of only 59 Kilobytes unpacked and creates a new disk catalog file after scanning and indexing a new disk. I previously mentioned that the indexing process was fast. It takes only a few seconds to index the contents of a full DVD. That is possible because Cathy indexes only the files, their path and information whereas Visual CD would index the contents of zip drives and media information.
Another benefit of using Cathy is its simplicity. Every disk catalog is searched automatically and results start to appear after seconds. Several filters are available to narrow down the search results. It is for instance possible to filter by date or length.
The verdict: If you want fast, simple and portable select Cathy. It’s the perfect disk catalog software for users who want to search their entire disk collection in a few seconds. If you want to add value, add mp3 tags, thumbnails and the like go for Virtual CD which offers that. It does take much longer to index the disks though and the interface is complicated and not that intuitive.
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Link? Is it this one http://www.mtg.sk/rva/ ?
37 millions results for Cathy in google… :)
Interesting one but I am strongly HDD person. Optical media is so restricting…
The link was there, all the time ;)
you got the right one btw.
Hi!
I tried the software. It is simpler than Visual CD. However the guys site seems to be from the dark ages. You found the software after decades :P Nice software though.
The sheer speed of CATHY is truly amazing. The only drawback I can see is that there is no way to add the contents of ZIP or other archives – essential for any software that catalogues my backups!
VisualCD is excellent and I love to be able to look inside ZIP files. The ability to search thumbnails, without having to load the CD, is also brilliant. Obviously this means that it takes a while to scan the CD and the catalogue files are bigger. The serious drawback is that this is the only disk catalogue software that only shows you one CD at a time????
Come on VisualCD sort that out and you have a winner!
I personally have been using Advanced Disk Catalog for many years. Latest version in http://www.disk-catalog.com/. Although it is not as flash as VirtualCD it does everything I want.
How anyone can have backups, software, music and video CDs / DVDs without an off line catalogue system is beyond me. I am able to search ALL my CDs/DVDs for a file name or comment and find which disk it is on. By adding a location (Box 1, Slot 5) to my comments for that disk I am then able to locate it and load the file in seconds.
No more hopeless hours wasted, searching for a lost file, by looking at each CD.
I use this
http://www.acc.umu.se/~max/maxlister/
a little bit greater but lists of archives are much smaller
how can download this file ” Portable Disk Catalog Software “