Comments on: Cathy A Fast Portable Disk Catalog Software

By: Free Disc Indexing software - TechEnclave

Free Disc Indexing software - TechEnclave — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:18:54 +0000

[...] Re: Free Disc Indexing software i use cathy. it is very minimalistic, and doesnt have all the features. but search is super fast. Cathy A Fast Portable Disk Catalog Software [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:09:22 +0000

When I tested Cathy I thought it was really good. I was really disappointed when I tried to use the latest version (2.28) to catalog content of an external drive just to find out that it was not possible. It seems that Cathy has a limit of how many folders can be catalogued. My drive had 66,889 folders and after few minutes of processing, Cathy displayed error message that read “Too many folders to catalogue.” That is really too bad because otherwise Cathy would have been fantastic to use with large drives.

By: sami

sami — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:52:35 +0000

how can download this file ” Portable Disk Catalog Software “

By: Octopus DVD Indexer

Octopus DVD Indexer — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:10:08 +0000

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By: a

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:03:57 +0000

I use this

http://www.acc.umu.se/~max/maxlister/

a little bit greater but lists of archives are much smaller

By: WCS.Tony

WCS.Tony — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:48:56 +0000

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.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:10:48 +0000

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.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:33:09 +0000

The link was there, all the time ;)

you got the right one btw.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:31:56 +0000

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…