Bill

If lost this I’d go and buy it without a second thought.

I did the Activate and Install as suggested in the text file.

I also sent a note to 10-strike

any more ideas before the time runs out??

thanks

jerry j

Open up notepad or your favorite text editing program and type your comments into that, then save (spell check is nice, isn’t it, for me and thee?) it to a text file. edit>select all>copy and then paste the text into the box here.

If it gets munched, open the file again.

my previous comment at about midnight is no longer listed

what has happened?

jerryjake

(27- try saving the appropriate reg entry)

Make sure the poor guy gets it translated from hexadecimal, Most ’snapshot’ uninstall programs render it in ascii.

if it doesn’t begin with a zero and end with an equals sign you didn’t do it right.

(hey, the *program* tells you that last itself! Too late to call it a secret now!)

I’ll feed it a 100 pack of mixed optical media and see how it works. That’s the test that settled me on InsideCAT (still at 3.27, thinking on 4.0- http://www.insidecat.biz, 8 megs) over many others. It didn’t slow down searches or catalog speed as the number of discs went up.

And there are a *lot* of functions for getting data from different file types that you can *turn off* for speed or to get past a crunched file.

The free ‘lite’ version catalogs up to 100 discs (in one data directory, but that’s another story) just fine. still.

And it does grab a fair amount of relevant data beyond the bare file size and name, which is why (sorry, #14) I gave up on Cathy.

#6, IC seems to do well even on hdd’s- although mine are partitioned at 20 gigs. use the free edition. :) it ain’t the size, just the # of disc catalogs.

#15, CDVista looks interesting. I’ll give it a try.

#23, laugh in another direction. people *do* have collections like that, and the hard part about using a new catalog proggie is that you have to feed them back in and wear out your optical drives moving over. I, personally, have 919 CD/DVD’s cataloged, of which 368 are DVD-R, and I have another 350 CD-R’s I never have managed to figure out how to re-label so I can put them in order in the binders and be able to find the cd. LOL yourself. (179 megs hdd space, rar’s to 27 megs, v4 adds thumbnails so that would raise the size- 3-5kb per pic according to the author)

Now if I could find a catalog transcoder tool- Now *that* would be handy.

oh, and that ignores game and program install discs- I never catalog them!