[X4U] Indexing CDs & DVDs

[William Morse]

Hi Mark-

If I were you, I would buy a 500 gig drive (~$110) and copy all the  
files to it, you can keep the CD's for back-up, you could keep each  
CD in it's own folder, so if you needed a file from CD you'd know  
where it is. Since these are client files, do you really want to take  
a chance of the CD scratching, and do you really want to search for  
the right CD, if the client calls for a file?

my 2¢, YMMV

Bill
On Jun 19, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> On 19-Jun-07, at 12:35 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
>
>> At 09:57 -0400 6/19/07, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>>> I've been given a spool of aprox 75 mixed CDs and DVDs. I need  
>>> to  somehow create a searchable index of their contents to make  
>>> it easier  to find the files they contain. Any recommendations of  
>>> a good app for  this?
>>
>> In OS-8 and 9 or so it was possible to ask Sherlock to perform a  
>> content indexing operation on a CD-ROM. If you were writing CD's  
>> is was also possible to place the content index file on the CD  
>> itself.
>>
>> I have not been able to put an index on a CD-ROM in OS 10.3.9 and  
>> I can't use 10.4 but Spotlight ought to be worth a try. I think  
>> all OS neXt content indexing expects to put index data on the boot  
>> drive.
>>
>> If it's just "content" of the disks as file names and perhaps  
>> sizes try
>>
>> man ls
>>
>> in Terminal.app.
>>
>> Oh - Do you mean music and television disks? If so nevermind. I  
>> initially thought "spool" was a type of file too.
>> -- 
>>
>
> I mean spool as in the plastic tray with the spike that the CDs  
> come on. The disks are all data files. Quark Xpress, Photoshop, MS  
> Word, PDF, etc. I just want to index the file names, not the  
> content of the individual files. I need to be able to search for  
> something like "Acme" and know what CD or DVD contains files or  
> folders with the word Acme in them. A graphic designer I know just  
> retired and I've taken over her clients. She dropped off the disks  
> of all the files for all her clients. Unfortunately the disks are  
> not divided by clients but by the dates she burnt them. There could  
> be files from the same client on on 10, 20, or more disks. I'd like  
> to insert a disk and index it as "disk 1" then insert another and  
> index it as "disk 2". At the end I want to be able to search the  
> index for files and find what disk or disks they are on.
>
> I'm not that familiar with Terminal (it intimidates me a bit) but  
> with good instructions I would give it a try.
>
> Mark Des Cotes
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