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IntroductionA file or disk catalog organizer helps index files stored on hard disks, removable media such as CDs, DVDs, USB drives or network drives in a few seconds and create catalogs for searching files without having access to the original media.Some useful organizers provide searching capabilities based on file name, date and size, filtering options, or searching duplicates or singles, etc. These organizers save your precious time and effort in finding the files you want instantly from a collection of even thousands of files on your storage media.Rated Products. Thanks for the tips.I've been using DiscCat for years but it's no longer giving decent search results with nearly 200 catalogues.

Really annoying when I know its there but its not finding the disc#.With Cathy not supporting 64 bit properly, thats off the table. I need a database, not Gentibus's extras.

Visual CD has not been updated in years. Several people pointed to issues with proprietary formats.

No desire to re-catalogue repeatedly.Virtual Volumes View looks like a great choice - thanks for the review James. The site mentions a prior issue with corrupt MP3 files thats fixed - that may address Geerts issue.Doesn't appear to search inside Zip files like DiscCat or Visual CD. or to post comments. Have loaded about 1/4 of my discs into VVV. It works very well. The default (which can be controlled) is to also index metadata in audio files.

So discs with a bunch of music will take much longer to index and may even show as 'Not Responding'. But all the discs have worked if I let it do its thing. Regular files index very quickly. And the search is fast.

This is so much better than what I was using.A couple of quick Startup tips.First you use New to create a catalogue. Then you click catalogue (the disc icon) to add a volume to the catalogue. Give it a name - I use a number series so the discs are easily browsed in time sequence. These will then list in Physical view.To Search, click Search and select Contains first.All can be exported to CSV.The only thing it doesn't do I'm used to is index ZIP file contents but thats not a biggy for me.The main key of course with any of these tools is good labelling. You won't be able to find it easily if you don't name folders and files in searchable terms. or to post comments. Hi PhylisVVV = Virtual Volumes View, as mentioned in the post I was replying to.

I've continued to use it happily for my file archives.In Search, I always change to 'Contains' rather than the default to get more complete results.It handles BD-Rs just fine too and can index hard drives, thumb drives or anything else you choose. Just make sure you use sensible naming conventions so you can find it (search for it) later.For movies and DVD's, I use EMDB (Erics Movie Database). Thats working really well for me and is updated regularly. I've turned off Cast photos as I don't need all that but it successfully imported my old listing after I'd prepared it properly. Serial surfer mac 2013. (I had built a custom database but it choked on an update) I was then able to batch-update via IMDB.

I mostly use the visual bookcase view. or to post comments. Thanks for the quick reply, David. Think I went brain dead from looking at so much stuff. Downloaded VVV and yes, it is incredibly straight forward and has the newest update to any of these programs. However, I'm having a problem viewing all catalogs.

Moment I'm sure:I cannot get multiple catalogs to show in 'Physical' or 'Virtual Folder'.I create catalog A, then click the Virtual icon and create a new Root Folder, called 'Thumb Drives'.Go back to 'Physical view', Right click on the catalog A, and add it to the virtual folder named 'Thumb Drives'.All's good.But when I create a second catalog,(B), the first one (A) no longer shows under 'Physical' and from Virtual view, No Root Folders show (Thumb Drives).What am I missing?. or to post comments. I don't use the Virtual section. Not sure if I even explored that.I just used File, New to create a VVV catalogue (3 of them) which are saved in the same folder. I then add disc 'volumes' to one or other of them by using the Open button and choosing the file (catalogue) I want to save the disc to.All the discs (volumes) in the file show in Physical view. I've got nothing in Virtual.The only reason I have separate catalogues is the type of content - file archives, app & OS, utilities.

I digitize my music so don't catalogue those discs (the meta data tells me the album it comes from) and as mentioned I use a different program for movies.It appears you'd use Virtual folders to intermix volumes like Favorites. As I use VVV mainly to find things across the archive, I have no need for that. or to post comments. It's a cataloguer.The installer can be extracted and run portably (although it will auto-create a data folder in My Docs and profile settings in AppData).The program itself is packed with all sorts of functions, it will catalogue the contents of archives, add thumbnails for pictures in the catalogue etc, all of which is configurable.It's not been updated since 2010 but it's very good, I've used it for years although I find VVV a bit more straightforward and faster on the whole.

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or to post comments. Gentibus CD - 'for the people' - is a very good name and choice if you're looking for a tool to organize your CD/DVD collection. The scan on CDs, DVDs or hard disks can be categorized and searched. The advanced search function will also find 'Harry Po' if you're looking for 'Harry Potter'. Gentibus CD will find duplicates, smartly discovers image, audio, video and program files as 'super-categories' on its own, which comes very handy when you're archiving a medium with mixed content. A very pleasing feature is that Gentibus CD will show you thumbnails of any pictures you might have archived on your CD/DVD so you will be able to search them somewhat as a virtual CD.This darn thing kept telling me my data access files where not installed despite installing the latest one.

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