 | May 2 2009 |
RUBAIYAT I am wondering if it is worth upgrading from Toast version to the full version. Whilst the RE version that comes with Toast works reasonably well, there are quirks. Because the search and find is cumbersome for catalogs of for instance my RIPed DVDs, I make up an indexed list by copying from the DiskCatalogMakerRE list, hopefully as large a range as I can, usually from each archive disk. Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to select the text. I have tried everything: holding down modifier keys, double or multiple clicking, sliding into each part, clicking on a higher hierarchy then a lower. When I finally succeed I have no idea why. Sometimes it just stubbornly won't let me select the text at all. I have exported the data as text hoping to clean it up and use that but it doesn't produce a clean tab delimited text file. Volume names run into file and folder names. The only tabs are used to separate the file size data and creator dates. The developers are uncontactable, the website offers no feedback, forums nor contact emails. This certainly bodes ill for me should I upgrade to the full version and still encounter these problems. More than a shame really, why would you want to hide from your users and their potentially useful suggestions and bug reports?
(Version 6.0.2b2) | |
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 | Jun 8 2009 |
SJK > I am wondering if it is worth upgrading from Toast version to the full version. One advantage of upgrading is that there's no guarantee RE versions bundled with Toast will get future updates, including certain bug fixes made in the full version. For example, 4.2.3 RE is the last version Roxio updated with Toast 8.x even though 4.4.1 is the last full version released. I've never made enough Mac-only data disc archives to justify upgrading to DCM full, nor from Toast 8 because 8.0.5 works well enough for my purposes on Leopard and Roxio's "upgrade" policy/pricing is extortionate.
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| Jun 25 2009 |
KSCHLOBYNSKI That is very unfortunate, indeed. I have tried this with CDFinder, and it does work fine there...
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 | Feb 23 2009 |
MISHA I love this app. I tried CDFinder, which is very good, but simply prefer DCM. Maybe it's because I remember using old Classic versions back in the day... but I just had a need for something like this again recently and it's fitting the bill perfectly. Great app!
(Version 6.0.1) | |
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| Jan 10 2009 |
SHANE C SMITH If this could read ID tags from mp3s then this would be my catalogue program of choice. Since it does not I'm stuck with CDFinder and it's really bad interface.
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| Jan 16 2009 |
WALT9500 Shane, I am really confused about your "really bad interface" remark of CDFinder. CDFinder has an amazing interface, in fact, I personally like it a lot better than the needless eye-candy other apps have. In your comment for CDFinder, you write "Please, no more pop up windows." Yet DiskCatalogMaker uses the exact same approach to windowing that CDFinder does. And does DiskCatalogMaker display the actual thumbnails of photos anywhere, outside the needless Cover Flow gimmick or the tiny Get Info window? CDFinder actually does, and it even has an icon view so you can actually use the thumbnails... And lets not start tlaking about the whole metadata abilities...
(Version 6.0b2) | |
| Jun 8 2009 |
CORPSECORPS I have to agree. I use CDFinder, but only consult it when absolutely necessary because of the horrid interface. It just seems wholly unintuitive and tedious. I don't fully like the left pane functionality, and the right pane is a pain.
(Version 6.0.2) | |
| Jun 25 2009 |
KSCHLOBYNSKI re CORPSECORPS: You keep on bashing CDFinder for its allegedly "horrid interface". But yet you fail to substantiate this weird claim, even when asked directly. I love the CDFinder interface, it is very clear, and show my thumbnails in any size I want. I totally fail to understand your opinion...
(Version 6.0.3) | |
| Jan 19 2008 |
CHRISCHRAM Version 4.3b2 fixes the crashing problem I observed in version 4.3b1. Good work developer.
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| Jan 19 2008 |
RUBAIYAT I searched for a long time to replace my ideal Disk cataloguer Disk Recall when it failed to update to OSX. When I got this with Toast I was more than happy. It is reliable, reasonably intuitive and fast, does batch scanning and auto-scan & eject of CDs, allows correction of disk names and separate libraries for different categories. The search function is a little odd, depending where you do it, I am never quite sure it is searching one or all libraries. I'd also love to search across multiple parameters. It also tends to dump scanned volumes into the default library even though I would rather it go into the foremost library, then I have to drag the scanned volumes across to where I really want them. All in all it does most of what you want, has a clear pleasant legible interface and works well with Toast, cataloguing each disk as you burn it.
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| Jan 18 2008 |
CHRISCHRAM Version 4.3b1 crashes when I try to open one of my catalog files. This is still an excellent application, but skip this version.
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| Jun 8 2007 |
JOSDANS No drag-and-drop!
(Version 4.2.2) | |
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| May 11 2007 |
DJINIBABY can´t import from cd finder :-(
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| Mar 7 2007 |
KAKUNA I went through many cataloging apps, testing their speed, memory usage, and user-friendliness. The contestents were DiskLibrary, Haxial's 2003 DiskCatalog, CDFinder, Media Indexer, Media Catalog, Media Indexer, and (of course) DiskCatalogMaker X 4.2.1. I tested them all on a 100GB drive with about 2000 files on it, and while some choked, or spent 5 minutes on it. Haxial's DiscCatalog was fairly zippy, but nothing comes close to DiskCatalogMaker. It scanned the whole drive within seconds, complete and reliable. Searches are just as fast, and the interface, while in it's current version less appealing than Media Catalog or DiskLibrary, is still comfortable.
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| Jan 19 2007 |
LAPTOPLEON I tried several free and shareware disk catalog makers for the Mac. DiskCatalogMaker was the most reliable by far. Others sometimes crashed at a particular (faulty?) disk or had other quirks. Eventually, I offered to translate it to my native language, because I wanted to do something back. The author thought it was a good idea and so I did - and I still translate the updates a few times per year. DCM has come a long way and it's getting better with every version. It's also translated in several other languages, like German, French and Spanish. The only thing I would like to see added to DCM, is a Spotlight index function.
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| Aug 8 2006 |
GENTLERF I gave this a try on a lark. I found it quite good as far as what it does. It did take a little tweaking to not use a lot of paper for printing but other than that, quite easy to use. It would be a good thing for the developer to ensure the printout will fit on a landscape orientation page from the beginning (just my preference), or allow for dynamic page resize to fit the paper and printer for the system.
(Version 4.1.1) | |
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| Jan 7 2006 |
TIM27 It would be cool if the rows were alternating colors to make viewing easier. It's a good program though.
(Version 3.6.1b7) | |
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| Jan 7 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN I'd bet that if you contact the developer with your suggestion, it will get implemented.
(Version 3.6.1b7) | |
| Oct 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS it doesnt seem to work on 10.4.2? it wont open?
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| Jun 6 2005 |
CARLVINE Amazing author response! Found a small bug in version 3.5.4 which I posted to the author (when listing .SIT contents). He replied within 2 hours, providing a brand new version with bug-fix that was immediately posted to update sites (3.5.5b1). This is an unbelievable response! What a great advertisement for good shareware.
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| Apr 28 2009 |
BURAN How did you contact the developer? I cannot find a contact address anywhere and I want to write to him/her to request DiskTracker catalog import (from the latest version) and serial number assignment (so that I don't lose the existing DiskTracker serial numbers, and can keep adding new numbers to future disks). DCM so far seems a lot smoother than DiskTracker, but the author of DCM isn't making it easy to want to give him/her money due to the lack of import and the missing contact information. I even tried a whois on the domain and the only email addresses listed were for the domain hosting service being used! Very unprofessional. No way to join a user mailing list either -- only a way to leave a mailing list that doesn't seem to exist!
(Version 6.0.2b2) | |
| May 3 2005 |
SPAM ON TOAST i wanted to try this as tiger seems to have broken 'disktracker' - but unsurprisingly there is no option to import disc catalogues from another app, so for me, it's either wait for a disktracker update or painstakingly re-catalogue all my 100s of CDs and DVDs again in diskcatalogmaker. guess which option i'll choose? [hint for all developers in general - don't assume that everyone who comes to your app does so as a first-time virgin". many of us may have invested a lot if time and effort into using a competitor product previously and if you don't make it easy for us to 'switch' without losing all our data, we ain't gonna bother!]
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| May 10 2005 |
NORBERT M. DOERNER Dude, use CDFinder! It can import your Disk Tracker files (just the "old" version 1.x files, but the "newer" 2.x can save them into that format easily)
(Version 3.5.4b5) | |
| Jun 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS AND, CDFinder is nice.
(Version 3.5.5b2) | |
| Jul 6 2007 |
LARAINE CDFinder is indeed very nice. But it's way too expensive!
(Version 4.2.2) | |
| Dec 29 2004 |
RICK I'm a registered user and have been using DCM for over a year now and have been very pleased with it. In the past I've used other types of catalog apps but this is the simplest, most straigthforward and reliable catalog system I've found so far. The search and find is very Mac-like and powerful. And it's packed with many other features, several of which I've not had occasion to use yet. Try it. You'll like it.
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| Mar 7 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Purchased and have beening using DiskCatalogMaker for several months. Fast. Efficient. Like it. However, on my Quicksilver Mac doing a find seems to be broken. No matter what I enter it finds hundreds of results that don't include the search word. Don't have this problem with the same version searching the same catalogs on my Powerbook. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a way to contact the developer. There is no contact information on their website. Am I missing something?
(Version 3.2) | |
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 | Mar 7 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This email address is included in the download.
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| Jan 12 2004 |
CHRISCHRAM Version 3.2b2 seems to have forgotten how to eject removable disks. Back to 3.1.4 for me.
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| Aug 29 2003 |
JASON BEAM Wow. Awesome utility for cataloging files. I'm an Art Director and was looking for a no BS way of cataloging 200+ archival disks with the ability to search quickly by keyword. I'm updating from Lacie Disk Catalog (circa 1997) so Drag-And-Drop is really, really handy.
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