I know that I've brought this topic up at a few meetings, and I think I might have found an answer (that will suit me).
What I am (was?) looking for is a way to catalog all of my "offline" content so that I could find things that I've burned to CD / DVD. As I collect things and my Hard Disk gets full, I usually do "file system copies" of content to copy them to a backup CD/DVD then delete the content from my hard disk. Not having them in local storage makes it hard for something like SPOTLIGHT to find. So, I would need another utility to catalog the contents of the CD/DVD's that I've burned and to keep the indexes local so that when I did search for content (that picture we took 5 years ago, or some documentation I wrote 3 years ago) I can at least identify which disc it's burned on and possibly the directory structure (or compressed file) where I can find the data.
On the PC, I was using SUPERCAT. I was using a similar tool (back in the day) when I was using System 7/8. Until now, I was still searching. I think I've found my answer .. CD FINDER (
http://www.cdfinder.de/).
On this comparison chart (
http://www.c...de/list.html ) -- although it's a bit skewed toward CD FINDER -- there's a GREAT comparison about features of about 10 other Macintosh oriented disc cataloging programs. It looks really thourough and also catalogs content that is in ZIP / SIT files as well (a Bonus!)
Oh -- and another good thing -- it's cross platform compatible (there is a version that does PC/WIN systems and produces catalogs that are compatible with either platform) and you can have multiple clients to be able to search catalogs that are on a central file server (so you dont have to have copies of the catalog indexes on each client).
Pricing is reasonable.
and as much as I've used SUPERCAT on the PC, it has saved my bacon many more times over than the cost of the shareware fee. I'll start using CD FINDER and I'll keep you posted.
Mike
