WinCatalog catalogs files and folders on all your hard drives, CDs and DVDs building a fast index that lets you locate any file or folder almost instantly - without having to reach for the original CD or DVD! Indexing. In order to locate files and folders that fast, WinCatalog needs to build an index by cataloging all your disks, files and folders.
WinCatalog scans each disk (CD, DVD, Hard Drive or any other storage device) and remembers the locations of every file and folder, including files inside ZIP, RAR, 7zip archives and ISO images. WinCatalog extracts and stores additional information about files, such as ID3 tags from MP3 files, keywords from saved web pages (HTML files), and EXIF information from digital photographs.
WinCatalog saves the first paragraphs of text files, and downloads track names for Audio CDs from Internet. All you need to do is just insert your disks one by one, with no need to make notes or write anything down on paper. WinCatalog will do all the work for you. Searching. After you complete the indexing of your disks, you are immediately able to search your entire collection without having to insert the CDs or DVDs.
When you need to find a file, tune, picture or document, just run WinCatalog, type any part of the file's name or description, and WinCatalog will identify the disk which contains that document, song or file. Furthermore, WinCatalog will show you on which shelf or CD case the needed disk is physically located. All you have to do is reach for the disk and grab it! Stop wasting your time scanning your removable media!
WinCatalog locates files and documents on CDs and DVDs in real-time.
Here are some key features of "WinCatalog 2012":
· Ability to catalog any storage devices accessible from Windows environment.
· Ability to catalog individual folders on disks.
· Automatic extraction of archive file descriptions when scanning a disk.
· Scanning archives contents and adding archives to the catalog as folders.
· Support of ZIP, RAR, SFX RAR and multipart RAR archives.
· Automatic extraction of mp3, html file descriptions when scanning a disk.
· Automatic extraction of EXIF tags from digital photographs.
· Retrieval of Audio CD track names from Internet CD database (freedb.org).
· Support of non-file items: it is enabling you to catalog your books, videos or even postage stamps and coins!
· Individual comments for each item: disk, folder or file.
· Ability to manage your collection between virtual folders using Drag'n'Drop.
· Each item is associated with a set of keywords to increase the search relevancy.
· The catalog can be searched by file name, comment and keywords, date and size.
· Powerful search functionality: ability to use AND, NOT, OR operators and wildcards.
· Ability to search the entire catalog or an individual disk.
· Ability to find duplicates by all or any of the search criteria.
· When the disk data is updated, the previously entered comments and keywords are preserved.
· Ability to delete from the catalog the unnecessary files and folders.
· Handy management of the lent disks.
· Ability to export and import parts of collection and the list of contacts.
· Ability to generate reports.
· Ability to generate HTML reports for sending to someone, publishing on the Web or printing.
· Ability to export any folder to .CSV file (comma separated values) for opening catalog in MS Excel or other applications.
· Ability to automatically open the last catalog when the application is started.
· Quick operation.
· Multilingual interface.
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
· Nag screen
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The search function behavior has been modified. Now you shouldn’t add leading asterisk into the search queries to find all occurrences of the search term.
· The ability to automatically backup your collection files on a regular basis has been added. WinCatalog will gently remind you to backup your data (or it will do that automatically).
· The collection converter has been improved. Now it can convert collections created with any previous version of WinCatalog (including WinCatalog Light).
· Now it is possible to minimize WinCatalog during the scanning process.
· The option to unlock list view columns has been added. Now it is possible to scroll list view right and left.
· A drag&drop issue has been fixed.
· The ability to access the program documentation (help file) from the main window has been added.
· WinCatalog now automatically rotates thumbnails according to EXIF orientation tag (on processing pictures).
· WinCatalog can now generate CSV reports (HTML reports are coming) based on a se...
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