DiskCatalogMaker is a simple disk management tool which catalogs disks.
- Simple, light-weight, and fast.
- Finder-like intuitive look and feel.
- Super-fast search algorithm.
- Can compress catalog data for disk space.
- Can generate thumbnail images.
- Long Unicode file name support.
- ZIP / RAR / 7-Zip / StuffIt / tar / gzip / bzip2 / CompactPro / LHA archive formats support.
- A Mach-O application. (Mac OS X native format.)
What's New
Version 6.4.9:
- Fixed a compatibility issue when drawing icons on OS X 10.9.
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, OS X 10.5 or later
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DiskCatalogMaker is a simple disk management tool which catalogs disks.
- Simple, light-weight, and fast.
- Finder-like intuitive look and feel.
- Super-fast search algorithm.
- Can compress catalog data for disk space.
- Can generate thumbnail images.
- Long Unicode file name support.
- ZIP / RAR / 7-Zip / StuffIt / tar / gzip / bzip2 / CompactPro / LHA archive formats support.
- A Mach-O application. (Mac OS X native format.)
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Dmarcoot reviewed on 03 Nov 2013
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I had asked the developer that a "scanned date" column is needed, because It's impossible to tell when the volume was last scanned without this.
The dev. replied: "To add the new columng, we should change the catalog database format. It would be a major update version. I can not promise about the release date of the future versions."
Doesn't seem like adding a column would require a major update, but what do I know?
I've been using NeoFinder for several months now, and haven't encountered any problems yet. My catalog keeps track of two internal partitions, as well as 26 partitions and 7 folders on 18 external drives.
That's a lot to catalog, but NeoFinder handles it well.
Immdb reviewed on 15 Jul 2013
The following version upgrade message from Fujiwara Software for the past 6 years has definitely help to keep me loyal:
"This major update version is a free upgrade for registered users of DiskCatalogMaker."
FREE…FREE…LOL…are you kidding me. Who else does that on major releases for years? From their version history it appears they have been giving free upgrades (at least) since 2002, when version 3.0 was released. I wish I purchased the initial release of DiskCatalogMaker just to know I was getting free upgrades for 24+ years)
I would think the competitors have improved (maybe not) since my original analysis but DiskCatalogMaker gives me what I want and it gives it to me fast. Granted, I don't need all of the bells and whistles but DiskCatalogMaker keeps me cataloged.
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Centering window would be nice too :)
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Mhoutman reviewed on 16 May 2013
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Mac Os X 4ever reviewed on 13 May 2013
I mounted all 6 of my NAS volumes before going to bed and tried to scan them while asleep, knowing that it would take a long time for that much data.
The design flaw is so stupid that after all night, in the morning, it had only scanned 1 of the 6 volumes, and had a dialog box up asking if I wanted to eject the first network volume that it had scanned.
This is totally stupid! I can understand asking to eject optical or removable media, but a hard drive or network volume is just plain dumb.
Now after waiting all night, nothing got done.
I will now look for options in the prefs to see if there's a way to fix this flaw, and if there is, it should have been flipped the other way by default.
What a waste of time!
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There is no way to distinguish removable media from fixed or network media.
So, in the real world, you would beed to have it ask to eject optical drives, and flash drives, but not fixed or network volumes.
There is no option for this. It is all or nothing.
I am now going to try NeoFinder, DiskLibrary, and DiskTracker.
This design flaw makes the program unusable for practical purposes.
I suppose knowing the flaw, I could just turn it off as it should have been by default, then manually eject removable media each time, but before doing that, I am going to look into the other programs first.
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DCM certainly loads fast and seems to maybe even index a drive faster than NeoFinder in my very rough, preliminary testing, but there's glaring problems that need to be resolved.
For one, the app forgets where you had the window last and shoves it back into the top-left corner each and every time you re-launch it. No good.
Also, the GUI is slightly more cumbersome than NeoFinder. I would test more, but the app forgetting the window placement is annoyance enough for me to stop here.
Hopefully the developer will address this and I'll come back, try it and give it further review.
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Gambo reviewed on 04 Mar 2013
I have never hang, crash or other issue with DCM.
The price is a little high compared to AppStore's apps.
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Sounds somewhat conflicting to me.
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Michel-Tribet reviewed on 12 Oct 2012
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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?
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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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Wenningch rated on 01 Mar 2014
Martin Loosli rated on 30 Jan 2014
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Greedyfranky rated on 11 Aug 2013
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