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Old 2019-01-21, 12:38 PM
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Re: How do you sort out your collections?

For Cathy Folder Lister...
Be sure to Place those 3 files in her own folder so you get all her directories.

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Cathy Folder Lister

An amazing little tool that can help you easily track down where you may have a file or folder. Once the media has been cataloged, it does not need to be connected to your computer for it to show up in a search. If you want to open the file location using Cathy, the media does have to be connected to your computer.

Once Cathy is opened, there are going to be 3 tabs.

Search, Directory & Catalog

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Start with the Catalog Tab.
1. Click tab to access
2. Browse for folder
3. Select folder to add
4. Add

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Click on the Search Tab.

In this image I have my Grateful Dead 1967 folder opened, and have 2 examples of searches.

First Example:
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I entered in the date I wanted to search in the "Pattern" box of the search tab. 4 different results popped up, the first 4 results are folder names. There are a few different columns here. I have found the most important to be "Name" & "Volume." It really helps me out to have my HDDs with their own unique names. You can see the 4 folders are all found on different volumes. The "Grateful Dead" Volume is my daily access. The "CharlieMiller" volume is the drive I received from Charlie. The "GD_BDR_01" is my Grateful Dead Blu-ray Disc 1, and the "GD 1965-1972" is my back up drive. Any volumes that you have added during the catalog phase with the corresponding search pattern will be displayed here. In addition to the folder names you can also see the .md5 .txt and any other file types which match the pattern searched for.

Second Example:
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This image I am searching for the shnid. 9108 is the shnid entered into the pattern box. Here you can see that any file name that has the number 9108 will show up.

If you want to open the file/folder location using Cathy, make sure that the media is connected to your computer. Highlight the entry you want to open & right click. A menu will pop up and there are several different selections you can make here.

More features in Cathy...

Right click a file/folder name:
A few more options which can be helpful can be found when you highlight the file/folder name and right click.

"Open" as long as the media is connected to your computer at the time you click open, it will open the file/folder location.

"Directory Tree List" exports the location of the file/folder to a text file.

"Full List" exports all folders AND files found in those folders to a text file.

"Create Playlist (m3u)" exports a m3u playlist to a location of your choice

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The official download link to the latest version (2.31.3) is this one:
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/Cathy2313.zip

The official website can be found here:
http://www.mtg.sk/rva


for Mac users : Media Indexer
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