[X-Newbies] Re: Wait! I have a new question!

[Michael Winter]

On May 21, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Charles Martin wrote:

> Sorry I didn't fully understand your question. If I'd thought about it 
> a bit longer, it would have dawned on me that what you wanted was a 
> disk CATALOGING app, and there's not one built into OS X.

Or is there?

I haven't tried it out yet, but theoretically Spotlight can be used to 
index removable disks and save the index to a local (boot only?) drive. 
 From there, Spotlight could be used to search removable media not 
currently in the machine.

I'm not sure how well it will work from a practical standpoint though. 
I remember having boxes of floppies titled "Untitled" and I'm ending up 
with quite a few CD's and DVD's that suffer a similar problem. Its not 
going to help if Spotlight tells me its on a DVD titled "Backup".

But maybe I'm the only one who had trouble remembering that taking the 
time to name disks properly can save a lot of trouble down the line.

-Mike