[X4U] cataloguing software

[alexandre]

On 18 juin 06, at 16:18, Daly Jessup wrote:

> At 3:10 PM +0200 6/18/06, alexandre wrote:
>> hi all
>>
>> i do regular back-ups to different drives that are in two  
>> different locations.
>>
>> i also put stuff on those drives that i do not need to have on my  
>> laptop (shows downloaded from the itms, etc, etc)
>>
>> i'm looking for software that could tell me what is on those  
>> drives without actually being connected to them. any ideas?
>
> Well, you of course can't tell what's on a disk that isn't  
> connected unless you have cataloged it first. But if you can  
> connect the drives once, you can catalog them and save the catalogs  
> on your boot drive.

well… obviously!
>
> I like DiskTracker for that purpose. Once you have cataloged a  
> drive (which is very fast to do) the searches of the catalog are  
> remarkably fast.
>
> Another one that may be even nicer is CDFinder. You can find both  
> at MacUpdate.com.
>

thanks, daly, i'll give them both a try.

regards

alexandre
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